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

   • Indra K. Vasil
   • Daniel C. W. Brown

   EditorialNotes Pages: 503 - 503

2. Biotechnology: Genetic improvement of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

   • Shahina B. Maqbool
   • Prathibha Devi
   • Mariam B. Sticklen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 504 - 515

3. Thin cell layer culture system in Lilium: Regeneration and transformation perspectives

   • Duong T. Nhut
   • Bui V. Le
   • C. R. Aswath

   OriginalPaper Pages: 516 - 523

4. Genetic control of in vitro response in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

   • N. D. Tyankova
   • N. A. Zagorska

   OriginalPaper Pages: 524 - 530

5. Micropropagation of the Acacia species—A review

   • Sascha L. Beck
   • Robert W. Dunlop

   ReviewPaper Pages: 531 - 538

6. Somaclonal variation rate evolution in plant tissue culture: Contribution to understanding through a statistical approach

   • F. X. Côte
   • C. Teisson
   • X. Perrier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 542

7. Improved somatic embryo production from embryogenic tissue of Pinus patula

   • Nicky B. Jones
   • Johannes van Staden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 549

8. Plant regeneration of creeping bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. Stoloniferum (Nash) J. Wipff) via somatic embryogenesis

   • T. Chakbavarty
   • J. G. Norcini
   • R. S. Kalmbacher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 550 - 554

9. Micropropagation of Allium wallichii kunth, a threatened medicinal plant of Nepal

   • Christoph Wawrosch
   • Prakash R. Malla
   • Brigitte Kopp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 557

10. Plant regeneration from embryogenic cultures initiated from mature loblolly pine zygotic embryos

    • Wei Tang
    • Zhongchen Guo
    • Fan Ouyang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 558 - 563

11. Efficient plant regeneration from embryogenic suspension cultures of sweetpotato

    • Q. C. Liu
    • H. Zhai
    • D. P. Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 564 - 567

12. Enhanced development of somatic embryos of Plantago ovata Forsk. By additives

    • Madhumita das (Pal)
    • Sarmistha Sen Raychaudhuri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 568 - 571

13. In vitro multiplication of Coleus forskohlii Briq.: An approach towards shortening the protocol

    • Rajasri Bhattacharyya
    • Sabita Bhattacharya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 572 - 575

14. Plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis and rapd analysis of regenerated plants in Tylophora indica (Burm. F. Merrill.)

    • M. Jayanthi
    • P. K. Mandal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 576 - 580

15. Clonal propagation of Arnica montana L., a medicinal plant

    • A. L. Buthuc-Keul
    • C. Deliu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 581 - 585

16. Large-scale production of Anogeissus pendula and A. Latifolia by micropropagation

    • Sanjay Saxena
    • Vibha Dhawan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 586 - 591

17. High-frequency direct shoot regeneration and continuous production of rapid-cycling Brassica oleracea in vitro

    • Puay-Koon Cheng
    • Prakash Lakshmanan
    • Sanjay Swarup

    OriginalPaper Pages: 592 - 598

18. Isoenzyme markers in varietal identification of banana

    • A. B. Mandal
    • Aparna Maiti
    • R. Elanchezhian

    OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 604

19. The effects of DNA hypomethylating drugs on androgenesis in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

    • Wen-Ze Li
    • Zi-Hong Song
    • Li-Juan Xu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 608

20. Photoregulation of growth and branching of plum shoots: Physiological action of two photosystems

    • Rosario Muleo
    • Stefano Morini
    • Salvatore Casano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 609 - 617

21. Physiological and biochemical responses of micropropagated tea plants

    • S. Marimuthu
    • R. Raj Kumar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 618 - 621

22. Multiple forms of NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductases in the madagascar periwinkle Catharanthus roseus

    • Blondy B. Canto-Canché
    • Víctor M. Loyola-Vargas

    OriginalPaper Pages: 622 - 628

23. Genetic and molecular analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype ‘Estland’) transformed with Agrobacterium

    • Rita Gandill
    • Satish C. Matheshwari
    • Paramjit Khurana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 629 - 637

24. Differences in in vitro plant regeneration ability among four Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes

    • M. Candela
    • I. Velázquez
    • A. De la Peña

    OriginalPaper Pages: 638 - 643

25. Detection of androclonal variation in anther-cultured rice lines using rapds

    • Rownak Afza
    • Jiahua Xie
    • Andrea Kodym

    OriginalPaper Pages: 644 - 647

26. Transformation of sweet potato tissues with green-fluorescent protein gene

    • Stacy Winfield
    • Rodrick Lawton
    • Sarwan K. Dhir

    OriginalPaper Pages: 648 - 653

27. Meiosis-like reduction during somatic embryogenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana

    • Chen Yhiua
    • Zhang Lihua
    • Chen Zhenghua

    OriginalPaper Pages: 654 - 657

28. Evaluation of a plant regeneration test of embryogenic cell suspension cultures of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv Taipei 309)

    • Alfora-Stella González-coronel
    • Barnabas Jenes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 658 - 666

29. Axillary shoot proliferation and in vitro flowering in an adult giant bamboo, Dendrocalamus giganteus Wall. Ex Munro

    • S. M. S. D. Ramanayake
    • W. A. V. R. Wanniarachchi
    • T. M. A. Tennakoon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 671

30. DNA methylation and gene expression differences during alternative in vitro morphogenetic processes in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)

    • Nándor Bucherna
    • Erika Szabó
    • István Nagy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 672 - 677

31. High photosynthetic photon flux and high CO₂ concentration under increased number of air exchanges promote growth and photosynthesis of four kinds of orchid plantlets in vitro

    • Eun-Joo Hahn
    • Kee-Yoeup Paek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 678 - 682

32. Relationships between peroxidases and in vitro bulbification in garlic (Allium sativum L.)

    • M. Goleniowski
    • O. Del Longo
    • J. A. Argüello

    OriginalPaper Pages: 683 - 686