By this definition, stem cells are particularly important for plant growth, because virtually all tissues of the plant descend from small groups of stem cells located in their growing apices ...
For example bone marrow stem cells only form different types of blood cells. Plants have stem cells too. They're found at the meristems, the growing tips of the roots and the shoots. The big ...
Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...