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How plants make copies of themselves—key 'cloning switch' gene identified
- May 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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A Hiroshima-University-led research team has discovered a key gene responsible for the initiation of gemma development, acting as a "master switch" to start asexual reproduction (cloning) in the model plant Marchantia polymorpha (common liverwort).
Originally published at Phys.org