Current Issues in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology: Proceedings of the VIIIth International Congress on Plant Tissue and Cell Culture, Florence, Italy, 12–17 June, 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
International Programmes of FAO and IAEA in Mutation Breeding and in Vitro Technology....Pages 1-3
Cellular and Molecular Genetic Improvement of Cereals....Pages 5-18
Plasma Membrane-Cell-Wall Adhesion and its Role in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses....Pages 19-29
Molecular and Cellular Events in the Formation of New Meristems....Pages 31-35
Oligosaccharide Elicitors and Elicitor Receptors....Pages 37-58
In Vitro Culture and Plant Regeneration in Gramineous Crops....Pages 59-68
Protoplast, Callus and Suspension Culture of Perennial Ryegrass — Effect of Genotype and Culture System....Pages 69-74
Breakthrough in the Plant Regeneration from Protoplasts of Vicia Faba and V. Narbonensis ....Pages 75-80
Plant Regeneration from Suspension and Protoplast Cultures in the Temperate Grasses Festuca and Lolium ....Pages 81-86
In Vitro Organogenesis, Transformation and Expression of Drought-Related Proteins in Forest Tree Cultures....Pages 87-94
Evolution and Automation in Micropropagation and Artificial Seed Production....Pages 95-104
A New Concept of Plant In Vitro Cultivation Liquid Medium: Temporary Immersion....Pages 105-110
Hormone Requirements During the Successive Phases of Rooting of Malus Microcuttings....Pages 111-116
Propagation of Magnolia and Uriodendron Via Somatic Embryogenesis....Pages 117-122
Tuberization in Vitro and Dormancy of Potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) Microtubers....Pages 123-125
Haploids — an Integral Part of Applied and Basic Research....Pages 127-135
Utilization of Anther Culture as a Breeding Tool in Rice Improvement....Pages 137-142
Application of Haploidy in Genetic Manipulation of Canola....Pages 143-148
Dihaploid Chicory ( cichorium Intybus L.) Via Microspore Culture....Pages 149-154
Use of Anther Culture Method in Pepper Breeding: Factors Affecting Plantlets Production....Pages 155-160
Protoplast-Fusion Derived Cybrids in Solanaceae....Pages 161-169
 Brassica Oleracea Cybrids for Hybrid Vegetable Production....Pages 171-176
Recovery of Citrus Somatic Hybrids Tolerant to Phoma Tracheiphila Toxin, Combining Selection and Identification by RAPD Markers....Pages 177-183
Towards producing bloat-safe Medicago sativa L. through protoplast fusion....Pages 185-190
Self and Cross Pollination of Ovules in Test Tubes....Pages 191-199
Embryogenesis and Plant Regeneration from in Vitro Fused Isolated Gametes of Maize....Pages 201-206
Fertile Barley Plants can be Regenerated from Mechanically Isolated Protoplasts of Fertilized Egg Cells....Pages 207-212
Experiments on Inter-Genera and Inter-Families Pollen Grains Protoplast Fusion....Pages 213-218
Mitochondrial Regulation of Petal and Stamen Development in Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Cultivars of Nicotiana Tabacum....Pages 219-224
Exploiting Somaclonal Variation — Especially GENE Introgression from Alien Chromosomes....Pages 225-234
Acetohydroxyacid Synthase GENE Amplification Induces Clorsulfuron Resistance in Daucus Carota L.....Pages 235-240
RAPD Analysis of Sugarcane During Tissue Culture....Pages 241-246
Evidence of Somaclonal Variation in Somatic Embryo-Derived Plantlets of White Spruce ( Picea Glauca (Moench) Voss....Pages 247-252
GENE Technology for Developing Countries: Genetic Engineering of Indica Rice....Pages 253-262
Production of Transgenic Cereal Crops....Pages 263-269
The Embryo as a Tool for Genetic Engineering in Higher Plants....Pages 271-277
Production of Fertile Transgenic Maize Plants by Silicon Carbide Whisker-Mediated Transformation....Pages 279-284
Studies on the Stability of Foreign Genes in the Progeny of Transgenic Lines of Vicia Narbonensis ....Pages 285-290
Molecular Analysis of Chloroplast Division....Pages 291-296
Integration of Solanum DNA into the Nicotiana Plastome Through Peg-Mediated Transformation of Protoplasts....Pages 297-301
Physical Maps of Mitochondrial Genomes from Male-Fertile and Male-Sterile Sugar Beets....Pages 303-308
A tRNA Gene Mapping Within the Chloroplast rDNA Cluster is Differentially Expressed During the Development of Daucus carota....Pages 309-314
Cryopreservation of Several Tropical Plant Species using Encapsulation/Dehydration of Apices....Pages 315-320
Application of Biotechnology to Carica Papaya and Related Species....Pages 321-326
Towards the Production of Transgenic Tropical Maize Germplasm with Enhanced Insect Resistance....Pages 327-331
DNA-Based Chromosome Markers: Brassica Crops as Case Study....Pages 333-339
Application of DNA Amplification Fingerprinting in the Breeding of Phalaenopsis Orchid....Pages 341-346
Maintenance of an in Vitro Collection of Allium in the Gatersleben Genebank — Problems and Use....Pages 347-352
In Vitro Selection of a Salt-Tolerant Cell Line from PEA Calli Cultures....Pages 353-358
The Role of Secreted Proteins in Carrot Somatic Embryogenesis....Pages 359-368
Expression of Floral Specific Genes in Tomato Hypocotyls in Liquid Culture....Pages 369-375
Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Arabidopsis Thaliana CV. Columbia L. (C24), Via Direct Embryogenesis....Pages 377-382
Controlling Factors and Markers for Embryogenic Potential and Regeneration Capacity in Barley ( Hordeum Vulgare L.) Cell Cultures....Pages 383-388
Importance of Extracellular Proteins for Somatic Embryogenesis in Picea Abies....Pages 389-392
Nutrient Absorption and The Development and Genetic Stability of Cultured Meristems....Pages 393-403
Multiple Floral Bud Formation In Vitro on the Giant Dome of Eleusine Coracana Gaertn....Pages 405-410
Effect of Gibberellic Acid (GA 3 ) and Micropropagation on Axillary Shoot Induction in Monostem Genotype (To-2) of Tomato (L. Esculentum Mill)....Pages 411-416
The Plant Oncogene Rolb Enhances Meristem Formation in Tobacco thin Cell Layers....Pages 417-422
Results, Showing Possibilities of Meristem Method for Improving Some Characteristics of Potato Varieties....Pages 423-426
Sieve Elements Isolated from Callus Cultures Can be used to Raise Phloem-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies....Pages 427-432
Oligosaccharides from Xyloglucan Affect the Development of Rubus Fruticosus Cell Suspension Culture....Pages 433-443
Rapid Wall Surface Rearrangements Induced by Oligosaccharides in Suspension-Cultured Cells....Pages 445-455
Cell Wall Break Down and Enhancement of Cellulase Activity During the Emergence of Callus from Rice Roots in the Presence Of 2,4-D....Pages 457-462
Auxin Perception at the Plasma Membrane of Plant Cells: Recent Developments and Large Unknowns....Pages 463-472
Perception of the Auxin Signal in Carrot Cell Membranes: ABPs, Hormone-Conjugate Processing and Auxin-Regulated Enzyme Activities....Pages 473-479
Endogenous Levels of Four Plant Hormones may Affect the Culture Conditions of Poplar Protoplasts to Regenerate Plants....Pages 481-486
Auxin and Ethylene in Hairy Root Cultures of Hyoscyamus muticus ....Pages 487-492
Effects of Phytohormones on Lateral Root Differentiation in Eucalyptus globulus and Transgenic Nicotiana tabacum Seedlings....Pages 493-499
Theoretical and Experimental Definition of Minimal Photoresponsive Elements in cab and rbcS genes....Pages 501-511
T-DNA Tagging of a Gene Inducing Desiccation Tolerance in Craterostigma plantagineum ....Pages 513-518
Are Arrestin-Like Proteins Involved in Plant Signal Transduction Pathways?....Pages 519-524
An Alternative Approach Towards Understanding Monocot Zygotic Embryogenesis....Pages 525-530
Mutations Conferring Early Flowering on a Late-Flowering Ecotype Of Arabidopsis thaliana ....Pages 531-538
Strategies for Increasing Tolerance Against Low Temperature Stress by Genetic Engineering of Membrane Lipids....Pages 539-544
Aluminum Effects on In Vitro Tissue Cultures of Phaseolus vulgaris ....Pages 545-549
Effect of Hyperosmotic 3-O-methyl-D-Glucose in the Medium on Metabolic Parameters in Actinidia deliciosa Callus....Pages 551-556
Gene Expression in Photosynthetically Active Tomato Cell Cultures is Influenced by Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Infection....Pages 557-562
Molecular Analysis of the Nitrate Assimilatory Pathway in Solanaceous Species....Pages 563-570
Inheritance of 5-Methyltryptophan-Resistance, Selected In Vitro, In Tobacco and Datura innoxia Plants....Pages 571-576
Molybdenum Cofactor (Nitrate Reductase) Biosynthesis in Plants: First Molecular Analysis....Pages 577-582
Analysis of the Structure of the 5′ End of the Gene Coding for Carrot Dihydrofolate Reductase-Thymidylate Synthase....Pages 583-588
Glutamine Synthetase in Cells from Carrot ( Daucus carota L.): Interaction between Phosphinothricin and Glutamate....Pages 589-594
Changes of Secondary Metabolism by Elicitor Treatment in Pueraria lobata Cell Cultures....Pages 595-604
Expression of Hyoscyamine 6ß-Hydroxylase in Plants and in E. coli ....Pages 605-609
Plant Cell Culture Combined with Chemistry — Potentially Powerful Routes to Clinically Important Compounds....Pages 611-616
Molecular and Metabolic Control of Secondary Metabolism in Tagetes ....Pages 617-622
Aquaporins: Water Channel Proteins in the Plasma Membrane and the Tonoplast....Pages 623-631
The Effect of Brefeldin a on the Golgi Apparatus in Norway Spruce Cells....Pages 633-638
Brefeldin A differentially affects protein secretion from suspension cultured tobacco cells ( Nico-tiana tabacum L.)....Pages 639-645
A Tonoplast Intrinsic Protein, α-TIP, is Present in Seeds and Somatic Embryos of Norway Spruce ( Picea abies )....Pages 647-652
The Characteristics of Atropine Metabolism in Cultured Tissues and Seedlings of Duboisia ....Pages 653-658
Environmental Control for Large Scale Production of In Vitro Plantlets....Pages 659-667
Large Scale Production of Secondary Metabolites....Pages 669-674
SOMES2: Image-Analysis-Based Somatic Embryo Sorter....Pages 675-680
Nutritional Aspects of Daucus Carota Somatic Embryo Cultures Performed in Bioreactors....Pages 681-687
Back Matter....Pages 689-700