“…Despite it is known for a long time that natural genetic variations may tremendously impact de novo plant regeneration 32 , and the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon has been intensively studied, it has not been elucidated to date 33 . The involvement of diverse proteins, whose genes are differentially expressed in lines with a high capacity for de novo regeneration, has been reported, including ferredoxin-nitrite reductase 34 , superoxide dismutase 35 , DELLA proteins 36 , a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase 20 , thioredoxin 28 or histone modifying enzymes 37 . Different functions of these proteins, and possible involvement of environmental factors on regulation of their expression, implicate a complex nature of the initiation of de novo regeneration, which include a network of hormone signalling and chromatin remodelling, followed by the modulation of gene expression, hormone levels, and redox homeostasis 18 , 20 , 28 , 33 , 37 – 40 .…”