The WUSCHEL gene promotes vegetative-to-embryonic transition in Arabidopsis.

By Jianru Zuo, Qinglin Niu, G. Frugis, Nam-Hai Chua. The Plant Journal, 2002

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Expression of WUSCHEL in Coffea canephora causes ectopic morphogenesis and increases somatic embryogenesis (2008, background): “Whole coffee plantlets transformed with WUS show unorganized calli formation Previous works have shown that WUS overexpression may generate de novo organ or embryo formation from fully differentiated organs (Zuo et al. 2002; Gallois et al. 2004).”
Morphogenic Regulators Baby boom and Wuschel Improve Monocot Transformation[OPEN] (2016, background): “napus, where ectopic expression of WUS (Zuo et al., 2002) and BBM (Boutilier et al.”
A Gateway Cloning Vector Set for High-Throughput Functional Analysis of Genes in Planta[w] (2003, methodology): “WUSCHEL was chosen in conjunction with the modified PER8 vector (pMDC7) because the expression of this gene after 17- -estradiol induction was well characterized (Zuo et al., 2002).”
Why somatic plant cells start to form embryos (2005, background): “Until now, several transcription factors (leafy cotyledon 1 and 2, wuschell, baby boom) have been identified to be involved in zygotic embryogenesis and to result in ectopic embryo formation if expressed in vegetative tissues (Boutilier et al. 2002; Lotan et al. 1998; Stone et al. 2001; Zuo et al. ”
Acquisition of embryogenic competence during somatic embryogenesis (2007, positive): “Zuo et al. (2002) used a chemically inducible activation tagging system to identify genes whose over-expression induces the formation of somatic embryos on Arabidopsis tissues without the need for external hormonal treatments.”
Recalcitrance in clonal propagation, in particular of conifers (2010, background): “WUS, and possibly AtSERK genes are needed for maintenance of embryonic cell identity and apparently the CLV gene turns off WUS and AtSERK at the appropriate time to promote organ initiation ( Zuo et al. 2002 ).”
Plant Callus: Mechanisms of Induction and Repression[OPEN] (2013, background): “(I) Embryonic callus on WUS-overexpressing plants (Zuo et al., 2002).”
Embryo production through somatic embryogenesis can be used to study cell differentiation in plants (2006, background): “Although few genes have been associated with embryogenesis induction, the search for genes involved in embryogenesis, such as SERK (Hecht et al. 2001), LEC (Lotan et al. 1998; Stone et al. 2001), BABY BOOM (Boutilier et al. 2002), WUSCHEL (Zuo et al. 2002), and PICKLE (Ogas et al. 1999), is a major ”
Regulation of Somatic Embryogenesis in Higher Plants (2010, background): “The WUS homeodomain protein specifies stem cell fate in shoot and floral meristems (Laux et al., 1996; Mayer et al., 1998), but also promotes somatic embryo development in seedlings when ectopically expressed (Zuo et al., 2002; Gallois et al., 2004).”
Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in date palm Phœnix dactylifera L., cv. Boufeggous is significantly improved by fine chopping and partial desiccation of embryogenic callus (2009, background): “D plays a key role in the induction of somatic embryos which is probably mediated by a signal cascade trigged by this exogenous auxin (Zuo et al. 2002).”
In vitro morphogenesis in plants-recent advances (2004, background): “LEC1, ABI3 (abscisic acid-insensitive) and FUS3 (fusca) are involved in somatic embryo maturation (von Arnold et al., 2002).”