Abstract:
Plants along with all other organisms play a vital role in the ecosystem. However unlike birds
or animals, they cannot move. To save themselves from their predators, plants evolved various
strategies. Various strategies also evolved so as to sustain the injuries and maintain their species on the planet.Plants possess remarkable property of regeneration. The process of regeneration, like all otherlife processes is carried out with fine tuning of various transcription factors. Plants regenerate in various different ways.
Mechanisms underlying these processes have been studied for quiet some time now. Recent
studies from the lab revealed important information about CUC2 a shoot promoting factor and
XTH9 a cell wall regulating enzyme. It revealed the regulatory mechanisms underlying shoot
formation. The main motive of this project was to explore this regulation in greater depth.
