To cope with these challenges, plants have developed a range of stress tolerance mechanisms, one of which involves the production of Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins. These proteins play ...

Unlike many animals, the adult body of a plant is not defined during embryogenesis. Instead, throughout their lifecycle, plants undergo a series of developmental changes that rely on the activity ...

"Switching on BBM1 artificially in the egg cell is enough to start embryogenesis and make a new plant, but this process only worked about a third of the time," said Sundaresan. "One of the things ...