List price   € 98     This title is available both in print and ActaHort CD-rom format Conveners   F.A. Hammerschlag, P. Saxena  Editors   F.A. Hammerschlag, P. Saxena  Publication date   30 September 2003  ISBN   978-90-66052-58-1  ISSN   0567-7572  Number of articles   56  Volumes   1  Place   Toronto, Canada  Online articles: FOREWORD AND PREFACE ( ISHS Board of Directors) NAVIGATING THE 'SMÖRGÅSBORD' OF DNA MARKER METHODS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS (H. Nybom) PROGRESS IN APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR MARKERS TO GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS (S. Rajapakse) PLANT CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION - THE ROLE FOR MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES (M.S. Camlin) SEQUENCE COMPARISON AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DNA FRAGMENTS AMPLIFIED BY RESISTANCE GENE PRIMERS IN TOMATO (D.O. Niño-Liu, L.P. Zhang, M.R. Foolad) IDENTIFICATION OF MOLECULAR MARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH COLD TOLERANCE IN BLUEBERRY (L.J. Rowland, S. Mehra, R. Arora) ANALYSIS OF ORGAN-SPECIFIC AND -PREFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES FROM ANTHER AND TEPAL OF LILY (H.-J. Yu, E.-J. Suh, B.W. Yae, B.-H. Han, I.-G. Mok) POSITIONAL CLONING OF THE APPLE SCAB RESISTANCE GENE VF (M. Xu, S.S. Korban) DEVELOPMENT OF RAPD AND SCAR MARKERS LINKED TO FLESH ADHESION GENE IN PEACH (J.H. Jun, K.H. Chung, S.B. Jeong, H.J. Lee) RAPD MARKERS LINKED TO THE DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES IN CHINESE WILD VITIS (W. Yuejin, Z. Jianxia, W. Xiping, X. Yan, W. Yizhen) DEVELOPMENT OF RAPD-AFLP MAP OF EGGPLANT AND IMPROVEMENT OF TOLERANCE TO VERTICILLIUM WILT (F. Sunseri, A. Sciancalepore, G. Martelli, N. Acciarri, G.L. Rotino, D. Valentino, G. Tamietti) MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF RIPENING FRUIT PROCESSES IN STRAWBERRY STARTING FROM A TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC DNA FRACTION (G. Martelli, M.R. Sabina, A. Sciancalepore, F. Sunseri, I. Greco) MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF GRAFT TRANSFORMATION IN CAPSICUM ANNUUM (Y. Hirata, S. Ogata, S. Kurita, G.T. Nozawa, J. Zhou, S. Wu) CONSTRUCTION OF A LYCHEE GENETIC LINKAGE MAP BASED ON RAPD MARKERS (C. Liu, M. Mei) CYCLAMEN PERSICUM MILL.: SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS AND RAPD ANALYSIS OF EMBRYOGENIC CALLUS (M. Laura, L. De Benedetti, .S Bruna, G. Burchi, T. Berio, A. Giovannini, B. Ruffoni) HIGH FREQUENCY RECOVERY OF INTERGENERIC FUSION PRODUCTS OF BRASSICA OLERACEA (+) LEPIDIUM MEYENII AND THEIR MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION BY RAPD AND AFLP (U. Ryschka, E. Klocke, G. Schumann) STRESS AND QUALITY IN IN VITRO CULTURE (A.C. Cassells, S.M. Joyce, E.A. O'Herlihy, M.J. Perez-Sanz, C. Walsh) BIOTIZATION OF MICROPLANTS FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE (S. Gianinazzi, L. Oubaha, M. Chahbandar, B. Blal, M.-C. Lemoine) LIQUID CULTURE SYSTEMS FOR PLANT PROPAGATION (A.K.H. Eide, C. Munster, P.H. Heyerdahl, R. Lyngved, O.A.S. Olsen) APPLICATION OF BIOREACTOR CULTURE FOR LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION OF CHRYSANTHEMUM TRANSPLANTS (S.J. Kim, E.J. Hahn, K.Y. Paek, H.N. Murthy) TEMPERATE FRUIT PLANT PROPAGATION THROUGH TEMPORARY IMMERSION (C. Damiano, S. Monticelli, S.R. La Starza, A. Gentile, A. Frattarelli) AUXIN, CALCIUM AND SODIUM IN SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS OF AFRICAN VIOLET (SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA WENDL. CV. BENJAMIN) (S.J. Murch, J.M.R. Victor, P.K. Saxena) IN VITRO "REJUVENATION" OF WOODY SPECIES IS TEMPORARY (M.N. Nas, P.E. Read, V. Miller, P.A. Rutter) SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS OF LETTUCE FROM MATURE TISSUES (J.E.A. Seabrook, L.K. Douglass) PRODUCTION OF SOMATIC EMBRYOS OF AMERICAN GINSENG IN SUSPENSION CULTURE AND REGENERATION OF PLANTLETS (M. Feeney, Z.K. Punja) THE INFLUENCE OF THIDIAZURON ON IN VITRO SHOOT PROLIFERATION OF OAKLEAF HYDRANGEA (HYDRANGEA QUERCIFOLIA BARTR.) (J.E. Preece, D.I. Ledbetter) DIFFERENTIATION SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION IN REGAL (LILIUM REGALE) CALLUS (V.-P. Pelkonen, A. Hohtola, H. Häggman, K. Laine) CLONAL PROPAGATION OF HYBRID SWEETGUM (LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA x L. FORMOSANA) VIA SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS FOR ORNAMENTAL APPLICATION (W. Vendrame, C.P. Holliday, S.A. Merkle) THE INFLUENCE OF SOURCE TREE ON SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS FROM EASTERN BLACK WALNUT (JUGLANS NIGRA) IMMATURE COTYLEDONS (M.M. Steger, J.E. Preece) UTILIZATION OF EMBRYOGENIC CELL CULTURES FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION OF BULBLETS IN ORIENTAL AND EASTER LILIES (S.K. Kim, J.S. Lee, K.H. Huang, B.J. Ahn) MICROPROPAGATION OF CHOCOLATE COSMOS (COSMOS ATROSANGUINEUS) BY REPEATED DIVISION OF NODES/AXILLARY SHOOTS AND ADVENTITIOUS SHOOTS FROM MICROSHOOTS (T. Hosoki, H. Kobayakawa, K. Ohta) RAPID MULTIPLICATION OF BASIL (OCIMUM BASILICUM); FACTORS AFFECTING CALLUS FORMATION AND PLANT REGENERATION (K.-J. Lee, B.-Y. Yi) PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC CULTURE WITH CO2 ENRICHMENT FOR IMPROVING MICROPROPAGATION OF COFFEA ARABUSTA USING SOMATIC EMBRYOS (A. Uno, K. Ohyama, T. Kozai, C. Kubota) STUDIES ON THE APPLYING OF EMBRYO CULTURE IN BREEDING NEW HYBRIDS BY CROSSING SEEDLESS GRAPE CULTIVARS (N. Kebeli, Y. Boz, C. Özer) MICROPROPAGATION OF JUVENILE EUCALYPTUS CITRIODORA (E.M. Koriesh, Y.M. Abd El-Fattah, M.A. El-Dayem, M.A. El-Etriby) METHYL JASMONATE INCREASES SAPONIN CONTENT IN BIOREACTOR CULTURE OF GINSENG (PANAX GINSENG C.A. MEYER) ADVENTITIOUS ROOTS (Y.-S. Kim, D. Chakrabarty, E.-J. Hahn, K.-Y. Paek) TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANIPULATING QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY TRAITS IN HORTICULTURAL CROPS (A.M. Dandekar) TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING TOLERANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS: GENETIC ENGINEERING OF SALT STRESS TOLERANCE IN JAPANESE PERSIMMON (DIOSPYROS KAKI) WITH THE GENES INVOLVED IN BIOSYNTHESIS OF COMPATIBLE SOLUTE (R. Tao, M. Gao) TARGETING TRANSGENE EXPRESSION IN APPLE TREE TISSUES -ROLES FOR HETEROLOGOUS AND HOMOLOGOUS PROMOTERS (D.J. James, A.J. Massiah, E.R. Hiles, J.R. Gittins, S. Biricolti, T.K. Pellny) DETECTION OF TRANSGENES IN APPLE ROOTSTOCKS USING ANCHORED PCR (L.H. Zhu, M. Welander, P. Windels, M. De Loose) THE BREAK -THROUGH IN THE REDUCTION OF JUVENILE PHASE IN APPLE USING TRANSGENIC APPROACHES (N. Kotoda, M. Wada, T. Masuda, J. Soejima) DNA METHYLATION VS. SOMACLONAL VARIATION IN HIGHER PLANTS: OIL PALM AS A CASE STUDY (E. Jaligot, T. Beulé, J.-L. Verdeil, J. Tregear, A. Rival) TRANSFORMATION OF POTATO PLANTS WITH THE ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE GENE LEADS TO ENHANCED STOLON DEVELOPMENT AND PRECOCIOUS TUBER SPROUTING (A. Lafta, J. Wu, J. Lorenzen) PRE-CONDITIONING RHODODENDRON AND CHRYSANTHEMUM LEAF EXPLANTS AFFECTS TRANSIENT BETA-GLUCURONIDASE EXPRESSION AFTER BIOLISTIC PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT (C.R. Moore, R.R. Tripepi) LEAF SENESCENCE IN PUTATIVE TRANSGENIC PETUNIA PLANTS CONTAINING THE PSAG12 -KN1 GENE (F.L. Cuquel, K. Minami, D.G. Clark) PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF PETUNIA PLANTS EXPRESSING AN INDOLEACETIC ACID (IAA)-LYSINE SYNTHETASE TRANSGENE DRIVEN BY A SHOOT SPECIFIC PROMOTER (R. McAvoy, M. Khodakovskaya, Y. Li, Y. Wu, S. Xue) TRANSFORMATION OF PEAR (PYRUS COMMUNIS CV. 'LA FRANCE') WITH GENES INVOLVED IN ETHYLENE BIOSYNTHESIS (H. Murayama, T. Toyomasu, W. Mitsuhashi, A.M. Dandekar, M. Gao, N. Matsuta, K. Nishimura, R. Tao) TISSUE CULTURE OF AMERICAN GINGSENG AND GENETIC ENGINEERING TO EXPRESS ANTIFUNGAL PROTEINS (Z.K. Punja, W.P. Chen) PLANT REGENERATION FROM LEAF EXPLANTS AND EFFICIENT AGROBACTERIUM-MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM OF CHRYSANTHEMUM (DENDRANTHEMA GRANDIFLORUM) (S.Y. Seo, D.C. Choi, J.M. Kim, H.C. Lim, H.J. Kim, J.S. Choi, Y.G. Choi) PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE EFFECT OF MAGNETIC FIELDS ON ANTHER CULTURE AND POLLEN GERMINATION OF CITRUS CLEMENTINA HORT. EX TAN (M.A. Germanà, B. Chiancone, M.R. Melati, A. Firetto) NEW BREEDING METHODS IN SWEDE -PURE LINE VARIETIES SELECTED FROM MICROSPORE-DERIVED LINES (M. Hansen, E. Bratberg) PLANT GENETIC ENGINEERING IS A FACT, IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND NECESSARY BREEDING TECHNIQUE, AND IT IS BOTH A CHALLENGE AND A SOLUTION THAT WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE PUBLIC (A. Altman) THE CONGESTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LANDSCAPE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE USE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HORTICULTURAL AND SUBSISTENCE CROPS (D. Delmer) PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2001 (W.K. Hallman, A.O. Adelaja, B.J. Schilling) EXPRESSION OF CRY1AC AND GUS IN CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER (H. Wang, E. Tsang, J. McNeil, C. Hannam, D.C.W. Brown, B. Miki) PHOSPHINOTHRICIN- AND CROWN GALL-RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS OF GRAPEVINE (M.A. Rubtsova, B.A. Levenko) BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO IMPROVE HORTICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION (D.K. Chebet, J.A. Okeno, P. Mathenge)