1. An efficient particle bombardment system for the genetic transformation of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.)

   • Jose Luis Cabrera-Ponce
   • Liliana López
   • Luis Herrera-Estrella

   OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 260

2. Plant regeneration from callus cultures ofLithospermum erythrorhizon

   • Hee-Ju Yu
   • Soo Kyung Oh
   • Sang-Gu Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 266

3. Expression of the green fluorescent protein gene in conifer tissues

   • Lining Tian
   • Armand Séguin
   • Pierre J. Charest

   OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 271

4. Pectic enzymes as a selective pressure tool forin vitro recovery of strawberry plants with fungal disease resistance

   • Roberto Orlando
   • Paolo Magro
   • Eddo Rugini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 272 - 276

5. Evaluation of five promoters for use in transformation of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

   • M. K. U. Chowdhury
   • Ghulam Kadir A. Parveez
   • Norihan M. Saleh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 281

6. Variation of alkaloid productivity among several clones of hairy roots and regenerated plants ofAtropa belladonna transformed withAgrobacterium rhizogenes 15834

   • Toshio Aoki
   • Hideki Matsumoto
   • Koichiro Shimomura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 282 - 286

7. Effect of acetylsalicylic acid on secondary metabolism ofCatharanthus roseus tumor suspension cultures

   • Gregorio Godoy-Hernández
   • Victor M. Loyola-Vargas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 290

8. Effect of cadmium treatment on the expression of chimeric genes in transgenic tobacco seedlings and calli

   • Ivan Stefanov
   • Joachim Frank
   • Santosh Misra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 294

9. High frequency of plant regeneration in sunflower from cotyledons via somatic embryogenesis

   • M. Carola Fiore
   • Teresa Trabace
   • Francesco Sunseri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 298

10. Agrobacterium strain specificity and shooty tumour formation in eucalypt (Eucalyptus grandis ×E. urophylla)

    • Luciana de Oliveira R. Machado
    • Gisele M. de Andrade
    • Ana Cristina M. Brasileiro

    OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 303

11. Pisatin metabolism in pea (Pisum sativum L.) cell suspension cultures

    • Wlodzimierz Borejsza-Wysocki
    • Ewa Borejsza-Wysocka
    • Geza Hrazdina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 304 - 309

12. Effect of atmospheric pressure on sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) protoplast division

    • H. Barthou
    • C. Brière
    • G. Alibert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 310 - 314

13. In vitro adventitious shoot production inPaulownia

    • Ben A. Bergmann
    • Heung-Kyu Moon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 319

14. RAPD polymorphisms among variant and phenotypically normal rice (Oryza sativa var.indica) somaclonal progenies

    • I. D. Godwin
    • N. Sangduen
    • S. W. Adkins

    OriginalPaper Pages: 320 - 324

15. In vitro micropropagation of an endemic fruit tree Syzygium alternifolium (Wight) walp

    • P. S. Sha Valli Khan
    • E. Prakash
    • K. R. Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 328

16. Chromosome doubling via tuber disc culture in dihaploid potato as determined by confocal microscopy

    • J. Mozafari
    • D. J. Wolyn
    • S. T. Ali-Khan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 333

17. Multiple shoot formation from normal and malformed somatic embryo explants of Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis L.)

    • Karsedis Distabanjong
    • Robert L. Geneve

    OriginalPaper Pages: 334 - 338

18. Selection ofMycosphaerella fijiensis-resistant cell lines from micro-cross sections of banana and plantain

    • B. N. Okole
    • F. A. Schulz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 343

19. Variability in storage response within a coffee (Coffea spp.) core collection under slow growth conditions

    • Stéphane Dussert
    • Nathalie Chabrillange
    • Serge Hamon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 344 - 348

20. Enhanced production of scopolin bySolanum aviculare cells immobilised within Ca-alginate gel beads

    • C. Roisin
    • F. Gillet-Manceau
    • J. -N. Barbotin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 353

21. Somatic embryogenesis inGnetum ula Brongn. (Gnetum edule) (Willd) Blume

    • Alice Clara Augustine
    • L. D'Souza

    OriginalPaper Pages: 354 - 357

22. Gemmation in cultured gametophytes ofOsmunda regalis

    • Helena Fernández
    • Ana María Bertrand
    • Ricardo Sánchez-Tamés

    OriginalPaper Pages: 358 - 362