are plant cells pluripotent totipotent
Cloning around. Some plants have cells that are able to convert from a structured, or differentiated, state to a totipotent state. One example is the ZZ plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia). This plant is so cellularly precocious that a mere piece of leaf or stem can be used to grow a new plant.
Therefore, every living cell of a plant should contain all the genes the plant has and thus has the capacity to grow back to a full plant. This is called cell totipotency . The process of specializing cellsâ functions is called cell differentiation . It is accompanied by morphogenesis, the change of the cellsâ morphology. Differentiation is done by turning on certain genes and turning off some others at a certain time.