{"id":167148,"date":"2023-07-08T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T03:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-uncovers-the-secrets-of-plant-regeneration"},"modified":"2023-07-08T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T03:42:53","slug":"study-uncovers-the-secrets-of-plant-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-uncovers-the-secrets-of-plant-regeneration","title":{"rendered":"Study uncovers the secrets of plant regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-uncovers-the-secrets-of-plant-regeneration3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants have the unique ability to regenerate entirely from a somatic cell, i.e., an ordinary cell that does not typically participate in reproduction. This process involves the de novo (or new) formation of a shoot apical meristem (SAM) that gives rise to lateral organs, which are key for the plant\u2019s reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cellular+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cellular level<\/a>, SAM formation is tightly regulated by either positive or negative regulators (genes\/<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein+molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein molecules<\/a>) that may induce or restrict shoot regeneration, respectively. But which molecules are involved? Are there other regulatory layers that are yet to be uncovered?<\/p>\n<p>To seek answers to the above questions, a research group led by Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan studied the process in Arabidopsis, a plant commonly used in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic research<\/a>. Their research\u2014which was published in <i>Science Advances <\/i>\u2014identified and characterized a key negative regulator of shoot regeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants have the unique ability to regenerate entirely from a somatic cell, i.e., an ordinary cell that does not typically participate in reproduction. This process involves the de novo (or new) formation of a shoot apical meristem (SAM) that gives rise to lateral organs, which are key for the plant\u2019s reconstruction. At the cellular level, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}