Abraham D. Krikorian
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1965
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Research Interests: Development in higher plants
We are concerned with identifying and studying factors that release the
normally suppressed totipotency of mature quiescent cells as they exist
in the plant body, and those conditions (nutritional and environmental)
that control the direction and pace of their subsequent development into
somatic embryos. Characterization of the conditions that influence fate
of cultured plant cells and the identification of conditions that are associated
with plasticity of their genotype and phenotype is a high priority. Aseptic
plant tissue, organ, cell and protoplast cultures of economically important
plants in controlled environments constitute the test systems.
Smith, D.L. and Krikorian, A.D. (1992) Somatic embryogenesis in carrot (Caucus
carota). In: Plant Tissue Culture Manual: Fundamentals and Application (K.
Lindsey, ed.), pp. 1-32. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Rivera, E., Irizarry, H., Cronauer-Mitra, S.S. and Krikorian, A.D. (1993)
Clonal fidelity and variation in plantain (Musa AAB) regenerated from vegetative
stem and floral axis tips in vitro. Annals. of Botany 71: 519-535.
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