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Cellular Totipotency - Botany | Biology Class 11

cellular totipotency
Notes | Botany
Cellular Totipotency - Biology
For: Science Class 11

Even a single cell of a plant body has a power to regenerate entire plant body. This is called cellular totipotency. 

In 1950, Steward conducted an experiment on carrot.  In this experiment, He removed small piece of carrot phloem, kept the piece in liquid medium. Phloem cells divided producing cell clusters. The clusters are kept on solid medium, after few days a plant grew in it.

Steward Experiment on Carrot

Cellular Totipotency
Fig: Steward Experiment on Carrot


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