Plant Stem Cells – Theoretical and Practical Studies

Abstract

In modern biology the theoretical studies on plant cell totipotency has led first to the birth of plant biotechnology and second, more recently to meristemotherapy or gemmotherapy, which interconnects with animal or human cell stem therapies, a very recent field in modern medicine.

In 1994 the Italian author Fernando Piterá, has published „Compendio di gemmoterapiaclinica (Meristemoterapia)ˮ, where it is first mentioned the term of meristemotherapy as the use of germs, buds and very young shoots as a treatment because they contain meristems the cells maintained by the plants for their continuous growth.

At global level, but in our country as well, meristemotherapy based on plant stem cells or meristematic cells made up the medical treatments or modern cosmetics, treatments that evolve fast as it does the therapeutic use of animal stem cells.