The improvement of woody fruit species by traditional plant breeding techniques has several
limitations mainly caused by their high degree of heterozygosity, the length of their juvenile …

Genetic transformation has become an important tool in plant genome research over the last
three decades. This applies not only to model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana but also …

Abstract An H+-pyrophosphatase (PPase) gene named TsVP involved in basic biochemical
and physiological mechanisms was cloned from Thellungiella halophila. The deduced …

Citrus protoplast-derived embryogenic calli can readily be induced to differentiate embryos
which further develop into mature fruit bearing trees. We successfully introduced plasmid …

We have previously developed a protocol for efficient gene transfer and regeneration of
transgenic calli following cocultivation of apple (cv. Jonagold) explants with Agrobacterium …

Micropropagation of the apple rootstock M. 9 was investigated with shoot culture lines which
had been maintained by monthly sequential subculture for 21 months, ca. five years or ca …

This chapter discusses the botany and history, importance, breeding and genetics,
molecular genetics, genomics, functional genomics, gene cloning, gene mapping …

Protoplast-to-plant systems for the Egyptian medicinal plants Artemisia judaica L. and
Echinops spinosissimus Turra have been developed. Micropropagated shoots of A. judaica …

Leaf and stem explants of passionfruit (Passiflora eadulis fv flavicarpa) were co-cultivated
with a disarmed strain of Agrobacterium tunefaciens harbouring the co-integrate vector …

High yields of protoplasts were isolated from embryogenic suspension cultures of Rosa
persica x xanthina and Rosa wichuraiana using an enzyme mixture comprising 20 g l-1 …