Differentiation processes carrots

The parameters, mentioned however, have not been clearly interpreted in terms of quality, i.e. what aspect of quality is measured The IQC provides a framework for further investigations to demonstrate the meaning of these parameters. In the apple and carrot experiments of the Louis Bolk Instituut, we demonstrated some experimental parameters in food products grown with different balances between growth and differentiation. Biocrystallisation pictures in particular, are able to show both the life processes of growth and differentiation, and their integration. In future we expect to find the key to work out the relevance of coherence for health in the balance (the integration) between the life processes. 

To this end, we designed experiments in which conditions were varied in order to induce the extremes of growth or differentiation into the crop. In Table 5.4 we present an overview of the experiments with the presumed effects of varying the cultivation factors on the life processes. By comparing the results with our expectations, we largely completed step 4 of the validation course for apple and carrot. 

Could this natural cloning process be duplicated in the lab At Cornell University in 1950, F. E. Stewart and his team of graduate students took tiny fragments from a fully differentiated root of a carrot and forced it to dedifferentiate... 

Plant cells are less specialized than animal cells in their metabolic abilities. An animal cell can develop or lose some metabolic properties depending on the tissue however, this process is mostly irreversible, e.g., there is no way known at present to reverse the development of a nerve cell or a liver cell into an embryonic one. This is true to some extent for plant cells also usually a leaf cell performs leaf metabolism, while a root cell performs only root metabolism. Under certain conditions, it is possible to change the metabolic properties. It was shown by Steward (1964) that carrot root cells, when released from the limitations of their normal tissue environment, can undergo differentiation to form all possible types of cells, leading ultimately to an entire plantlet. Some leaves or pieces of stem can readily form roots. Therefore, owing to this metabolic versatility, one might expect that alkaloids can be formed in all cells of a plant. This may be the case in some plants, such as Ricinus communis (castor bean), but it is not universal. 

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