Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Somatic Embryogenesis and Organogenesis of Plants

Dear Colleagues,

The natural ability of plants to regenerate has been the fundamental basis for several agricultural and biotechnological approaches.

Biotechnologists extended this ability using plant growth regulators (auxin and cytokinins) coupled with plant tissue culture media and stress signaling (light, osmotic, saline, heavy metal and temperature stress). This has promoted the manipulation of many plant species that regenerate by somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis processes.

However, many important species exhibit recalcitrance, meaning that the current protocols are unsuccessful for them; this is one of the major bottlenecks facing the pharmacology industry, micropropagation and plant genetic engineering.

In the genomic era, the application of omic technologies (transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic) will help us to elucidate the fundamental processes of growth and development.

This Special Issue will cover various topics, with the aim of contributing to current knowledge on plant regeneration mediated by somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis.

Topics that will be considered for this Special Issue include:

• Transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analysis applied to plant regeneration.
• Gene regulatory networks.
• Genetic transformation and genome editing to increase the efficiency of plant regeneration.

We also encourage the submission of confirmatory findings and negative or inconclusive results which address rigorously tested hypotheses about the regeneration of recalcitrant plant species.

Dr. Cabrera-Ponce José Luis
Guest Editor

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• plants
• somatic embryogenesis
• organogenesis
• omic technologies
• genetic transformation
• genome editing
• plant growth regulators