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AY Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 68: 321-324, 2002. CONTENTS Volume 68 2002 Volume 68 No. 1 Reviews of Plant Biotechnology and Applied Genetics Genetic diversity and conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources V. Ramanatha Rao, T. Hodgkin Regular articles Somatic embryogenesis of the banana hybrid cultivar FHIA-18 (AAAB) in liquid medium and scaled-up in a bioreactor R. Gomez Kosky, M. de Feria Silva, L.P. Pérez, T. Gilliard, F.B. Martinez, M.R. Vega, M.C. Milian, E.Q. Mendoza Factors affecting direct organogenesis from flower explants of Allium giganteum A. SuSek, B. Javornik, B. Bohanec Micropropagation of the Mediterranean tree Ceratonia siliqua A. Romano, S. Barros, M.A. Martins-Lougao Establishment and characterization of Rubus tissue culture systems for in vitro bioas- says against phytotoxins from Rubus fungal pathogens P.J. Hollmann, G.K. Lohbrunner, S.F. Shamoun, S.P. Lee Meristem culture and virus eradication in Alstroemeria A. Chiari, M.P. Bridgen Effect of 2,4-p and 4-CPPU on somatic embryogenesis from stigma and style transverse thin cell layers of Citrus S. Fiore, F. De Pasquale, F. Carimi, M. Sajeva Adventitious shoot regeneration from immature embryos of sorghum T. Hagio influence of auxins on organogenesis and ginsenoside production in Panax ginseng calluses M. Bonfill, R.M. Cusido, J. Palazon, M.T. Pifol, C. Morales Growing of potato microplants in the presence of alginate-silverthiosulfate capsules reduces ethylene-induced culture abnormalities during minimal growth conservation in vitro D. Sarkar, K.C. Sud, S.K. Chakrabarti, PS. Naik Pinoresinol and matairesinol accumulation in a Forsythia x intermedia cell suspension culture J. Schmitt, M. Petersen Research notes Rapid clonal multiplication of Lavandula viridis LHér through in vitro axillary shoot proliferation M.C. Dias, R. Almeida, A. Romano 322 Addition of nickel to Murashige and Skoog medium in plant tissue culture activates urease and may reduce metabolic stress C.-P. Witte, S.A. Tiller, M.A. Taylor, H.V. Davies 103-104 Volume 68 No. 2 Reviews of Plant Biotechnology and Applied Genetics Secondary metabolism in tobacco L.H. Nugroho, R. Verpoorte 105-125 Regular articles Somatic embryogenesis in perennial statice Limonium bellidifolium, Plumbaginaceae M.A.M. Aly, B. Rathinasabapathi, K. Kelley 127-135 Micropropagation and synthetic seed in M.26 apple rootstock (Il): A new protocol for production of encapsulated differentiating propagules R. Brischia, E. Piccioni, A. Standardi, 137-141 Micropropagation and field evaluation of micropropagated plants of turmeric N.D. Salvi, L. George, S. Eapen 143-151 The morphological variability within a population of coffee somatic embryos produced in a bioreactor affects the regeneraticn and the development of plants in the nursery D. Barry-Etienne, B. Bertrand, A. Schisnvoigt, H. Etienne 153-162 Induction of RNase and nuclease activity in cultured maize endosperm cells following sucrose starvation D.R. Gallie, S.-C. Chang, T.E. Young 163-170 Effects of nutritional factors on the formation of Anthraquinones in callus cultures of Rheum ribes M. Farzami Sepehr, M. Ghorbanii 171-175 Effect of selectable gene to reporter gene ratio on the frequency of co-transformation and co-expression of uidA and hpt transgenes in protoplast-derived plants of tall fes- cue A.J.E. Bettany, S.J. Dalton, E. Timms, M.S. Dhanoa, P. Morris 177-186 Effect of hydrogen peroxide on synthesis of proteins during somatic embryogenesis in Lycium barbarum C. Kairong, L. Ji, X. Gengmei, L. Jianlong, W. Lihong, W. Yafu 187-193 Evaluation of a new culture method for mass-propagation of a photoperiod- temperature sensitive genic male sterile rice strain N19S G.-Z. Zheng, Y.-S. Yang, X.-H. Chen, B.-H. Wan 195-202 Research note Adventitious shoot organogenesis and plant regeneration from cotyledons of Dalber- gia sissoo Roxb., a timber yielding tree legume A.K. Singh, S. Chand, S. Pattnaik, PK. Chand 203-209 Book review Metabolic Engineering of Plant Secondary Metabolism A. Scragg 211-212 Volume 68 No.3 Special Section on /n Vitro Culture of Medicinal Plants. Part II Guest Editor: Praveen K. Saxena Editorial PK. Saxena 213 Study of paclitaxel prodution from an antifungal variant of Taxus callus X. Su, X. Mei, W. Gong 215-223 A specific role for spermidine in the initiation phase of somatic embryogenesis in Panax ginseng CA Meyer M. Monteiro, C. Kevers, J. Dommes, T. Gaspar 225-232 Explant preparation affects culture initiation and regeneration of Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius W.-L. Teng, T. Sin, M.-C. Teng 233-239 High frequency plant regeneration from Aralia cordata somatic embryos K.-S. Lee, J.-C. Lee, W.-Y. Soh 241-246 High frequency of bulblet regeneration from bulb scale sections of Fritillaria thunbergii K.Y. Paek, H.N. Murthy 247-252 Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from immature embryos of saw pal- metto, an important landscape and medicinal plant M. Gallo-Meagher, J. Green 253-256 llex paraguariensis cell suspension culture characterization and response against eth- anol K.H. Kraemer, E.P. Schenkel, R. Verpoorte 257-263 Regular articles Effect of phytohormones on growth and alkaloid accumulation by a Catharanthus ros- eus cell suspension cultures fed with alkaloid precursors tryptamine and loganin M. El-Sayed, R. Verpoorte 265-270 Callus and cell suspension cultures of Rudgea jasminoides, a tropical woody Rubi- aceae A. Stella, M.R. Braga 271-276 Phenotypic characterization and bulk segregant analysis of anther culture response in two backcross families of diploid potato T. Boluarte-Medina, R.E. Veilleux 277-286 The uptake of copper ions by cell suspension cultures of Agave amaniensis, and its effect on the growth, amino acids and hecogenin content S. Kartosentono, G. Indrayanto, N.C. Zaini 287-292 324 Alkaloid formation in cell suspension cultures of Tabernaemontana elegans after feed- ing of tryptamine and loganin or secologanin E. Lucumi, A. Vera, D. Hallard, R. van der Heijden, R. Verpoorte 293-299 Enhanced rate of multiplication and rooting through the use of coir in aseptic liquid culture media G. Gangopadhyay, S. Das, S.K. Mitra, R. Poddar, B.K. Modak, K.K. Mukherjee 301-310 Research note Direct plant regeneration from leaf explants of Plumbago species G. Das, G.R. Rout 311-314 Instructions for authors 315-318 Author index 319 Contents Volume 68 321-324