What do you mean by Totipotency?
What do you mean by Totipotency? According to Haberlandt (1902), a German botanist, every living plant cell is totipotent, i.e., each cell is capable of regenerating a whole plant.
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Plant cell are totipotent in the sense that the somatic cells have the ability to develop into a complete plant. The evidence was first given by Steward et. al. (1950). They explanted a small piece of phloem of mature carrot and cultured in a liquid medium containing different nutrients and coconut milk.