embryogenicadj.

1844 Lancet 12 Oct. 69/1 The irritability of Haller does not explain the embryogenic formation of the chicken in the egg.

1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates 46 He arrived..at the same result..by his embryogenic observations.

1892 Strangeways' Vet. Anat. (ed. 4) viii. 556 By repeated fusion of the vitelline substance there arises a cellular material called the embryogenic tissue, or blastoderm, out of which the body of the embryo is formed.

1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. viii. 350 In the Teleosts the yolk mass is so large, and so completely separated from the embryogenic tissues, that the embryo may be said to develop upon the surface of the yolk.

1940 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 May 772/1 Numerous fundamental problems are discussed with reference to the interpretation of observations upon conditions such as organogenesis; the kinematic aspect of embryogenic processes; [etc.].

1985 Jrnl. Insect Physiol. 31 423/2 They [sc. ecdysteroids] are packaged as maternal factors within the eggs, presumably to act later as regulators of embryonic moulting or of other as yet unidentified embryogenic events.

2012 Exper. Cell Res. 318 1965/1 The HH [= hedgehog] pathway..is an important mediator of normal embryogenic development in many organs.

1972 Plant Physiol. 50 319/2 The carrot cell culture contained a high proportion of proembryoids and embryogenic cells.

1984 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 71 158/1 We now describe the establishment of long-term embryogenic callus cultures of maize and the regeneration of plants by somatic embryogenesis.

2007 M. F. Suárez & P. V. Bozhkov Plant Embryogenesis iii. 39 Embryogenic cell lines often lose their potential to differentiate somatic embryos after continuous proliferation for several months.