Genetically modified plants are usually produced using tissue culture, but techniques used to modify a plant genome also affect its epigenome.
Tag - tissue culture
AJ Cann
Gene-dosage effects of WEE1 in arabidopsis hypocotyls
Over-expression of the cell cycle checkpoint gene, WEE1, may repress growth and development. Spadafora et al. culture explants of Arabidopsis thaliana from an over-expressing Arath;WEE1 line (WEE1oe), two T-DNA...
botanyone
Gentamicin and special-purpose antibiotics
Gentamicin is an unusual antiobiotic with two properties that make it particularly useful in plant cell culture: it is autoclavable so is added to media before autoclaving/sterilization, and it is active against...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
In vitro regeneration of peach palm
Secondary somatic embryogenesis has been postulated to occur during induction of peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) somatic embryogenesis. Steinmacher et al. study this morphogenetic pathway and use zygotic embryos as...
