Plant cells do not easily abandon their mature identity. In apple, that transformation is especially important because somatic embryogenesis underpins regeneration and genetic improvement.

Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a remarkable process whereby differentiated plant cells are induced to revert to a totipotent state and develop into embryos capable of regenerating whole plants. This ...

Human embryos take much longer to develop than mouse embryos. 1 Scientists thought that this was because humans are larger, but a new study has overturned that idea. 2 Researchers from the European ...

The study harnesses data from over one million embryonic cells spanning all stages of embryo development and represents a significant advance at multiple levels. “Just capturing the entirety of ...

The annual killifish lives in regions with extreme drought. A research group now reports that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other species. Unlike other fish, their body ...

A robust and quantitative map links chromatin modification and gene expression of cells during zebrafish embryogenesis.