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Epigenetic Advances on Somatic Embryogenesis of Agronomical and Important Crops

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Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications

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Under in vitro conditions, differentiated plant cells can be induced to generate organs, shoots, or somatic embryos, which can regenerate a new functional plant. Somatic embryogenesis (SE) has been relevant for clonal propagation for a wide range of important agronomical and economical crops. In addition, SE provides an interesting model to study epigenetic changes during plant development. For instance, during cellular differentiation, sophisticated epigenetics mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, histone modifications and microRNAs can modulate the chromatin structure and change the expression of several genes. In this chapter, we describe the epigenetics events that modulate the embryogenic response in agronomical and important crops. Therefore, the knowledge about epigenetic mechanisms during the SE process could help to increase the embryogenic capacity of different plants improving new strategies to increase agronomical traits of crops.

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This work was supported by a grant received from the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT 178149 to C.D.P.). G.N.C. was supported by a scholarship (213451) from CONACyT.

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Nic-Can, G.I., De la Peña, C. (2014). Epigenetic Advances on Somatic Embryogenesis of Agronomical and Important Crops. In: Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07971-4_6

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