meristem

Where do you draw the line between damaging and killing a plant, the termination of the apical meristem?

Additional mutations affecting meristem growth can induce the production of conical structures reminiscent of the conspicuous fractal Romanesco shape.

You can cut the meristem or you can heat the weed.

I think the usual idea is that during development, cell division patterns in the plant apical meristem [1] implement some Lindenmayer system [2].

Extracting meristem tissue is usually the only difficult part.

Yes, the bacteria infect the apical meristem during embryo development and are included in all cell types and tissues of the mature plant simply by being present at all subsequent cell divisions.

The growing tip of a root is called the root apical meristem[1] but the short story is that they work effectively by being tiny and taking years or decades to develop, so not all that helpful in terms of making things easier or cheaper.

You typically take tissue from the part of the plant called the meristem, where cells are actively dividing and less likely to be infected, then rapidly disinfect and transfer the tissue to a sterile culture.

Collecting the plant material can be simple or extremely difficult (collecting meristem material can be excruciating if you haven’t worked under a microscope before), and it’s fine to start simple (just use a piece of a leaf).

Defined in the linked paper: > retip cuttings (cuttings taken from new shoots on recently micropropagated plants) Had an IRC buddy who was doing mass meristem propagation of banana plants in school who tried some cannabis beside it with similar techniques.

> We demonstrate that the presence of FTO stimulates root meristem cell proliferation and tiller bud formation and promotes photosynthetic efficiency and drought tolerance but has no effect on mature cell size, shoot meristem cell proliferation, root diameter, plant height or ploidy Looks promising but I wonder what impacts this will have on the nutritional content?