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SUBMITTER: Garces HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2000513 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcês Helena M P HM Champagne Connie E M CE Townsley Brad T BT Park Soomin S Malhó Rui R Pedroso Maria C MC Harada John J JJ Sinha Neelima R NR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070924 39
Plant somatic cells have the remarkable ability to regenerate an entire organism. Many species in the genus Kalanchoë, known as "mother of thousands," develop plantlets on the leaf margins. Using key regulators of organogenesis (STM) and embryogenesis (LEC1 and FUS3) processes, we analyzed asexual reproduction in Kalanchoë leaves. Suppression of STM abolished the ability to make plantlets. Here, we report that constitutive plantlet-forming species, like Kalanchoë daigremontiana, form plantlets b ...[more]