1. Ornamental Chrysanthemums: Improvement by Biotechnology

   • Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 18

2. Somatic embryogenesis in Centella asiatica L. an important medicinal and neutraceutical plant of India

   • Ch. Paramageetham
   • G. Prasad Babu
   • J.V.S. Rao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 24

3. Variation in Anther Culture Response and Fertility of Backcrossed Hybrids between Indica and Japonica Rice (Oryza sativa)

   • Seung Yeob Lee
   • Hyun Soon Kim
   • Tae Oh Kwon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 30

4. Factors Affecting the Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Transformation of the Wetland Monocot, Typha latifolia

   • Rangaraj Nandakumar
   • Li Chen
   • Suzanne M.D. Rogers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 38

5. Effect of Combined Changes in Culture Medium and Incubation Conditions on the Regeneration from Immature Embryos of Elite Varieties of Winter Wheat

   • Cecília Tamás
   • Péter Szűcs
   • Zoltán Bedő

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 44

6. Exogenous Carbohydrate Utilisation by Explants of Brassica napus Cultured in vitro

   • Halina Ślesak
   • Andrzej Skoczowski
   • Lesław Przywara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 51

7. SERK Gene Homolog Expression, Polyamines and Amino Acids Associated with Somatic Embryogenic Competence of Ocotea catharinensis Mez. (Lauraceae)

   • Claudete Santa-Catarina
   • Luiz Ricardo Hanai
   • Eny I.S. Floh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 61

8. Effects of organic solvents on membrane ofTaxus cuspidata cells in

   • Qiu-man Xu
   • Jing-sheng Cheng
   • Ying-jin Yuan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 69

9. Effects of antibiotics on the elimination of Agrobacterium tumefaciens from loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) zygotic embryo explants and on transgenic plant regeneration

   • Wei Tang
   • Hongsong Luo
   • Ronald J. Newton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 81

10. Induced Activity of Superoxide Dismutase and Peroxidase of in vitro Plants by Low Concentrations of Ethanol

    • Xiu-Qing Li
    • Shi-Hua Li
    • Fan-Rui Meng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 86

11. Age and Physiological Condition of Donor Plants Affect in vitro Morphogenesis in Leaf Explants of Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa

    • D.C. Becerra
    • A.P. Forero
    • G.A. Góngora

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 90

12. Micropropagation of Achillea filipendulina cv. ‘Parker’

    • Dalia Evenor
    • Moshe Reuveni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 93

13. High Frequency Plant Regeneration from Astragalus melilotoides hypocotyl and stem explants via somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis

    • Sui-Wen Hou
    • Jing-Fen Jia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 100

14. Induction of Somatic Embryogenesis and Plant Regeneration of ‘Ataulfo’ Mango (Mangifera indica)

    • Marisela Rivera-Domínguez
    • Miguel Angel Manzanilla-Ramírez
    • Miguel Angel Gómez-Lim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 104

15. Effects of Auxins and 2,3,5-Triiodobenzoic Acid on Somatic Embryo Initiation from Norway Spruce Zygotic Embryos (Picea abies)

    • A.V. Ramarosandratana
    • J. Van Staden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 107

16. RT-PCR amplification of mRNAs in nuclei or cytosol of single cells of tomato

    • M. Wada
    • Y. Matsuda
    • H. Toyoda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 114

17. Somatic embryogenesis and plantlet regeneration in semul (Bombax ceiba)

    • Manisha Vyas
    • Y.K. Bansal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 118

18. Book Reviews

    BookReview Pages: 119 - 119

19. Book Review: S. Hayat and A. Ahmad: Brassinosteroids. Bioactivity and Crop Productivity

    • Geert-Jan de Klerk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 119

20. Erratum

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 121