1. Message from the president and the secretary of the IAPTC&B

   • Indra K. Vasil
   • David W. Altman

   EditorialNotes Pages: 301 - 301

2. Dr. Abed A. Wated (1957–2000)

   • Arie Altman

   Obituary Pages: 302 - 302

3. The development of the biolistic process

   • John C. Sanford

   Turning Point Article Pages: 303 - 308

4. Agricultural biotechnology and moral imperatives

   • Willy de Greef

   My Turn Pages: 309 - 311

5. Effect of simulated and real weightlessness on early regeneration stages of Brassica napus protoplasts

   • Else Berit Skagen
   • Tor-Henning Inersen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 312 - 318

6. Genetic fidelity of organized meristem-derived micropropagated plants: A critical reappraisal

   • Vijay Rani
   • S. N. Raina

   OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 330

7. DNA shuffling: Modifying the hand that nature dealt

   • Alexandra J. Reid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 331 - 337

8. Lipid biosynthesis in cultures of oilseed rape

   • Randall J. Weselake

   OriginalPaper Pages: 338 - 348

9. Somatic embryogenesis in oak (Quercus spp.)

   • Eva Wilhelm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 357

10. Plant regeneration from cotyledon tissues of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench)

    • Sun Hee Woo
    • Arun Nair
    • Clayton G. Campbell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 358 - 361

11. A simple and efficient procedure to improve plant regeneration from protoplasts isolated from long-term cell-suspension cultures of indica rice

    • Kexuan Tang
    • Enpeng Zhao
    • Aizhong Wu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 362 - 365

12. Optimization of a working cryopreservation protocol for Pinus patula embryogenic tissue

    • Catherine S. Ford
    • Nicky B. Jones
    • Johannes van Staden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 366 - 369

13. In vitro differentiation and plant regeneration of Albizia chinesis (Osb.) Merr

    • R. K. Sinha
    • K. Majumdar
    • S. Sinha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 370 - 373

14. Electroporation of intact embryonic leaflets of peanut: Gene transfer and stimulation of regeneration capacity

    • V. L. M. De Pádua
    • M. C. Pestana
    • E. Mansur

    OriginalPaper Pages: 374 - 378

15. In vitro propagation of two species of commelinaceae from bud cultures and repeated subcultures on a growth regulator-free medium

    • F. Scaramuzzi
    • G. Apollonio
    • S. D'Emerico

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 382

16. A protocol for in vitro mass propagation of asiatic hybrids of lily through liquid stationary culture

    • Anushri Varshney
    • Vibha Dhawan
    • P. S. Srivastava

    OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 391

17. Regeneration of plantlets from leaf and petiole explants of Pelargonium x hortorum

    • Pradeep K. Agarwal
    • Rajinder S. Ranu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 392 - 397

18. Hormonal control of proliferation in meristematic agglomerates of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn

    • Ouoimare Arezki
    • Philippe Boxus
    • Thomas Gaspar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 398 - 401

19. In vitro propagation of Typhonium flagelliforme (Lodd) blume

    • Su Tiing Sai
    • Chan Lai Keng
    • Chris K. H. Teo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 402 - 406

20. Shoot organogenesis and plantlet regeneration from hypocotyl-derived cell suspensions of a tree legume, Dalbergia sissoo Roxb

    • S. Pattnaik
    • C. Pradhan
    • P. K. Chand

    OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 411

21. Shoot regeneration from seedling explants of Acacia mangium Willd

    • Gerard C. Douglas
    • John Mcnamara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 412 - 415

22. Efficient plant regeneration of garlic (Allium Sativum L.) by root-tip culture

    • Alejandrina Robledo-Paz
    • Víctor M. Villalobos-Arámbula
    • Alba E. Jofre-Garfias

    OriginalPaper Pages: 416 - 419

23. A reliable protocol for plant regeneration from callus culture of Phalaenopsis

    • Ying-Chun Chen
    • Chen Chang
    • Wei-chin Chang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 420 - 423

24. Improvement of ginsenoside production by jasmonic acid and some other elicitors in hairy root culture of ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer)

    • Kee-Won Yu
    • Wen-Yuan Gao
    • Kee-Yoeup Paek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 424 - 428

25. International Symposium on Transplant Production in Closed Systems for Solving the Global Issues on Environmental Conservation, Food Resources, and Energy

    • Wiert Van Der Meer

    Report Pages: 429 - 431