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 ...

"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 ...

Animal embryogenesis is the process by which the embryo develops from the fertilised egg cell. Important events that occur during embryogenesis are gastrulation, formation of the early nervous ...