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Usefulness of Physcomitrella patens for Studying Plant Organogenesis

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Plant Organogenesis

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 959))

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In this chapter, we review the main organogenesis features and associated regulation processes of the moss Physcomitrella patens (P. patens), the model plant for the Bryophytes. We highlight how the study of this descendant of the earliest plant species that colonized earth, brings useful keys to understand the mechanisms that determine and control both vascular and non vascular plants organogenesis. Despite its simple morphogenesis pattern, P. patens still requires the fine tuning of organogenesis regulators, including hormone signalling, common to the whole plant kingdom, and which study is facilitated by a high number of molecular tools, among which the powerful possibility of gene targeting/replacement. The recent discovery of moss cells reprogramming capacity completes the picture of an excellent model for studying plant organogenesis.

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  1. Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, UMR1318 INRA-AgroParisTech, INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon, Versailles, France

    Sandrine Bonhomme, Fabien Nogué & Catherine Rameau

  2. Laboratory of molecular and cell biology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland

    Didier G. Schaefer

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Bonhomme, S., Nogué, F., Rameau, C., Schaefer, D.G. (2013). Usefulness of Physcomitrella patens for Studying Plant Organogenesis. In: De Smet, I. (eds) Plant Organogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 959. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-221-6_2

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