SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS
Somatic embryogenesis is the process of regeneration of a plant through the formation of embryo-like structures induced from somatic cells or gametes. Somatic embryos usually originate from a single competent cell and develop to form globular phases, livers, torpedoes, and finally become mature somatic embryos ready to be germinated to form plantlets/whole plants. Physiologically and morphologically, somatic embryos experience the same stages of embryonic development as zygotic embryos. Somatic embryogenesis in modern breeding is very important because it can regenerate a plant cell that has been manipulated either by transformation or modification into a complete plant, so that the plant cell can be regenerated into a complete plant and display the changes. Almost all plant competent cells can be induced to become embryogenic cells because plant cells have the ability totipotent cells. Cell totipotency is the ability of a single cell to form a complete plant. Somatic embryogenesis c