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Apoptosis during early somatic embryogenesis in Picea spp.

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Plants comprise at least two main groups of cells, one involved in nuclear and cell division (free-nuclear cycling, mitosis, meiosis, etc.) and other in differentiation, specialized functions, maturation, senescence and aging. An important question is how a long-term commitment is made between the genetic control of divisional cycles, specialized functions, and terminal differentiation in cell populations in an intact plant body (Havel and Durzan 1996a).

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  1. Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Zemědělská 1, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ladislav Havel

  2. University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Don J. Durzan

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Havel, L., Durzan, D.J. (1999). Apoptosis during early somatic embryogenesis in Picea spp.. In: Jain, S.M., Gupta, P.K., Newton, R.J. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants. Forestry Sciences, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3032-7_5

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