Plant BiologybioRxivPreprint
Complete vegetative propagation via an epigenetic state change
Nicole K. Smoot, Yinwei Zeng, Rebecca M Hochman, Ben P. Williams
This study shows that Arabidopsis mutants with impaired DNA demethylase pathways can regenerate whole plants from cuttings without hormones, accompanied by specific DNA methylation changes at pluripotency-related genes.
DOI 10.64898/2026.03.27.714943