PREVIOUS work on tissue cultures of the wild carrot has shown that the embryogenesis which occurs in such cultures is not fundamentally different from the same process in the ovule 1,2.

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 ...

Yet, their long life cycles slow traditional breeding methods, positioning somatic embryogenesis (SE) as a more effective ...