1. Non-radioactive detection of β-glucuronidase and chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activities in co-transformed protoplasts by HPLC

   • Camillo Branca
   • Ada Ricci
   • Simone Ottonello

   OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 365

2. Viability, cell division and microcallus formation of barley microspores in culture

   • K. N. Kao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 366 - 369

3. Recovering vitrified carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) shoots using Bacto-Peptone and its subfractions

   • Seiki Sato
   • Manabu Hagimori
   • Sumio Iwai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 370 - 374

4. Bioassembly of acyl lipids in microspore-derived embryos of Brassica campestris L.

   • D. C. Taylor
   • A. M. R. Ferrie
   • S. L. MacKenzie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 384

5. Germination of encapsulated embryos of interior spruce (Picea glauca engelmannii complex) and black spruce (Picea mariana Mill.)

   • Monika M. Lulsdorf
   • Thomas E. Tautorus
   • David I. Dunstan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 389

6. Transformation of haploid Datura innoxia protoplasts and analysis of the plasmid integration pattern in regenerated transgenic plants

   • Thilo Schmidt-Rogge
   • Martin Meixner
   • Otto Schieder

   OriginalPaper Pages: 390 - 394

7. A method for long-term micropropagation of Phaseolus coccineus L.

   • F. Vaquero
   • C. Robles
   • M. L. Ruiz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 395 - 398

8. Vigorous growth of fusion products allows highly efficient selection of interspecific potato somatic hybrids: molecular proofs

   • Zs. Polgár
   • J. Preiszner
   • A. Fehér

   OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 402

9. Plant regeneration through direct somatic embryogenesis from protoplasts of banana (Musa spp.)

   • Bart Panis
   • Ann Van Wauwe
   • Rony Swennen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 407

10. Stable transformation via particle bombardment in two different soybean regeneration systems

    • Shirley Sato
    • Christine Newell
    • Maud Hinchee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 408 - 413

11. Identification and production of flavonoids in a cell suspension culture of Scutellaria baicalensis G.

    • Weon Taek Seo
    • Young Hoon Park
    • Tae Boo Choe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 414 - 417

12. Genetic transformation of Brassica nigra by agrobacterium based vector and direct plasmid uptake

    • Vibha Gupta
    • G. Lakshmi Sita
    • V. Jagannathan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 418 - 421

13. Enhanced transformation of tomato co-cultivated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58C1Rif^r::pGSFR1161 in the presence of acetosyringone

    • Kátia H. Lipp João
    • Terence A. Brown

    OriginalPaper Pages: 422 - 425

14. Plant regeneration from isolated microspores of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.)

    • Karin Nichterlein
    • Wolfgang Friedt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 426 - 430

15. Callus induction and plant regeneration from explants of commercial cultivars of leek (Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum L.)

    • J. Buiteveld
    • P. van der Valk
    • C. M. Colijn-Hooymans

    OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 434

16. Stable transformation of barley tissue culture by particle bombardment

    • A. Ritala
    • L. Mannonen
    • V. Kauppinen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 440

17. Patterns of accumulation of duvatrienediols in shoot cultures of tobacco

    • Marysia B. W. Miedzybrodzka
    • Michael M. Yeoman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 444

18. β-glucuronidase gene expression and mRNA stability in oat protoplasts

    • David C. Higgs
    • James T. Colbert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 452

19. Spontaneous somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from root cultures of Peucedanum palustre

    • Pia Vuorela
    • Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey
    • Raimo Hiltunen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 453 - 456

20. Alignment of molecular and classical linkage maps of rice, Oryza sativa

    • Naoki Kishimoto
    • Majid R. Foolad
    • Akira Saito

    OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 461

21. Variation amongst Brassica juncea cultivars for regeneration from hypocotyl explants and optimization of conditions for Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation

    • Deepak Pental
    • Akshay K. Pradhan
    • Arundhati Mukhopadhyay

    OriginalPaper Pages: 462 - 467

22. Stable transformation of the food yam Dioscorea alata L. by particle bombardment

    • Mahmut Tör
    • Charles Ainsworth
    • Sinclair H. Mantell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 468 - 473

23. Establishment of hairy root cultures of Linum flavum producing the lignan 5-methoxypodophyllotoxin

    • André Oostdam
    • Jos N. M. Mol
    • Linus H. W. van der Plas

    OriginalPaper Pages: 474 - 477

24. Notice of retraction

    Announcement Pages: 478 - 478