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Somatic embryogenesis is an ideal system for investigation of the whole process of differentiation of plants as well as the mechanisms of expression of totipotency in plant cells. The intention of the first attempt of Haberlandt to establish plant tissue culture systems was to provide evidence for totipotency of plant cells. Thus, the mechanism of somatic embryogenesis is one of the most fundamental problems in plant physiology. Recently, somatic embryogenesis has attracted attention in plant biotechnology, because it can provide useful systems to produce transgenic clone plants as well as to obtain materials of artificial seeds.
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Komamine, A. et al. (1990). Mechanisms of Somatic Embryogenesis in Celll Cultures— Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In: Nijkamp, H.J.J., Van Der Plas, L.H.W., Van Aartrijk, J. (eds) Progress in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2103-0_47
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