{"id":171145,"date":"2023-09-02T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-uncover-secrets-of-plant-regeneration"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:22:41","slug":"scientists-uncover-secrets-of-plant-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-uncover-secrets-of-plant-regeneration","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Uncover Secrets of Plant Regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-secrets-of-plant-regeneration2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants possess the unique ability to completely regenerate from a somatic cell, i.e., an ordinary cell that does not typically participate in reproduction. This process involves the <em>de novo<\/em> (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>On a cellular scale, the formation of SAM is meticulously controlled by either positive or negative regulators (genes\/protein molecules) 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology\/\">Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)<\/a>, Japan studied the process in <em>Arabidopsis<\/em>, a plant commonly used in genetic research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants possess the unique ability to completely regenerate 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. On a cellular scale, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171145","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\/171145","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}