 | FOREWORD AND PREFACE (J.-A. Fernández, F. Abdullaev, ISHS Board or Directors) |
| SAFFRON REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY (M. Grilli Caiola) |
| FLOWER FORMATION IN THE SAFFRON CROCUS (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) THE ROLE OF TEMPERATURE (R.V. Molina, A. García-Luis, V. Coll, C. Ferrer, M. Valero, Y. Navarro, J.L. Guardiola) |
| THE MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF AMYLOPLAST DISTRIBUTION IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. FIBROUS ROOTS (B. Behboodi, L. Samadi) |
| DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRACTION OF CONTRACTILE ROOTS IN CROCUS SATIVUS (M. Khalesi, B. Behboodi, Ebrahimzadeh) |
| COMPARATIVE MORPHOANATOMICAL STUDY OF THREE SPECIES PERTAINING TO THE CROCUS GENUS: C. NEVADENSIS, C. NUDIFLORUS AND C. SATIVUS DIFFERENTIATING CHARACTERISTICS (L. Pulido, S. Gattuso, M. Gattuso) |
| CROCUS CARTWRIGHTIANUS ON THE ATTICA PENINSULA (N. Jacobsen, M. Ørgaard) |
| BIOLOGY OF CROCUS OLIVIERI SUBSP. OLIVIERI (H. Vurdu, K. Güney, F.F. Çiçek) |
| MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL APPROACH OF THE SYSTEMATICS OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. AND ITS ALLIES (A.A. Zubor, G. Surányi, Z. Győri, G. Borbély, J. Prokisch) |
| DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR ORIGIN DETERMINATION IN SAFFRON (J. Pardo, J.-A. Fernández, L.G. Gómez) |
| BIOSYNTHESIS OF CAROTENOIDS IN SAFFRON (A. Rubio, J.-A. Fernández, L.G. Gómez) |
| EXPRESSION OF L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYMES DURING ROOT DEVELOPMENT IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. CORM (J. Keyhani, E. Keyhani, N. Sattarahmady) |
| THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE IN DORMANT CROCUS SATIVUS L. CORM (L. Ghamsari, E. Keyhani) |
| DETECTION AND KINETIC PROPERTIES OF ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE IN DORMANT CORM OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (M. Hadizadeh, E. Keyhani) |
| DEVELOPMENT AND GENE EXPRESSION IN SAFFRON CORMS (M. Álvarez-Ortí, L.G. Gómez, A. Rubio, J. Escribano, J. Pardo, F. Jiménez, J.-A. Fernández) |
| STUDIES ON EXPRESSION OF GENES INVOLVED IN SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS AND STORAGE PROTEIN ACCUMULATION IN SAFFRON CROCUS (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (M. Álvarez-Ortí, T. Schwarzacher, A. Rubio, S. Blázquez, A. Piqueras, J.-A. Fernández, P. Harrison) |
| CHARACTERIZATION OF A CLASS I CHITINASE FROM SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (R. Castillo, L.G. Gómez, J.-A. Fernández) |
| INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN AGRICULTURE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SAFFRON PRODUCTION IN IRAN (A.A. Koocheki) |
| PRODUCTIVITY, GROWTH AND QUALITY ATTRIBUTES OF 10 IRANIAN SAFFRON ACCESSIONS UNDER CLIMATIC CONDITIONS OF CHAHAR-MAHAL BAKHTIARI, CENTRAL IRAN (P. Ehsanzadeh, A.A. Yadollahi, A.M.M. Maibodi) |
| MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK SAFFRON STIGMAS FROM KOZANI REGION (T. Mitsopoulou, M.Z. Tsimidou) |
| EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS OF PRODUCTION AND ECHO PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (A. Mollafilabi) |
| THE EFFECT OF NITROGEN FERTILIZERS (UREA, SULFUR COATED UREA) WITH MANURE ON THE SAFFRON YIELD (S. Rezaian, M. Forouhar) |
| INFLUENCE OF FOLIAR FERTILIZATION ON YIELD OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (M. Hosseini, B. Sadeghiand, S.A. Aghamiri) |
| EVALUATION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) YIELD COMPONENTS (A. Mollafilabi) |
| MODELING SAFFRON FLOWERING TIME ACROSS A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT (M.A. Behdani, M. Nassiri, A.A. Koocheki) |
| EXTENDING THE HARVEST PERIOD OF SAFFRON (R.V. Molina, A. García-Luis, M. Valero, Y. Navarro, J.L. Guardiola) |
| CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES, MORPHOLOGY AND ENZYMATIC PROPERTIES OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (E. Keyhani, J. Keyhani, M. Hadizadeh, L. Ghamsari, F. Attar) |
| MODALITY OF THE CONTRACTILE ROOT FORMATION IN CULTIVATED SAFFRON, IN FIELD CONDITION AND IN TISSUE CULTURE (M. Khalesi, B. Behboodi, H. Ebrahimzadeh) |
| PLANTLET REGENERATION VIA SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN FOUR SPECIES OF CROCUS (R. Karamian) |
| SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.): MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND THE ROLE OF THE ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMATIC SYSTEM (S. Blázquez, E. Olmos, J.A. Hernández, E. Hellín, J.-A. Fernández, A. Piqueras) |
| SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN SAFFRON: OPTIMISATION THROUGH TEMPORARY IMMERSION AND POLYAMINE METABOLISM (S. Blázquez, A. Piqueras, M.D. Serna, J.L. Casas, J.-A. Fernández) |
| COLCHICINE INDUCED VARIABILITY IN SAFFRON (G. Zaffar, S.A. Wani, T. Anjum, N.A. Zeerak) |
| INDUCED MUTAGENIC VARIABILITY IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (I.A. Khan) |
| ROOM TABLE: AGRONOMICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR SAFFRON IMPROVEMENT (H. Vurdu) |
| SAFFRON: ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF COLORANTS TO ITS COMMERCIAL QUALITY (M.Z. Tsimidou) |
| A RAPID PROCEDURE FOR THE EVALUATION OF SAFFRON COLOURING STRENGTH USING TRISTIMULUS COLORIMETRY (L. Cuko, T. Mitsopoulou, M.Z. Tsimidou) |
| COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT EXTRACTION PROCEDURES AND HPLC METHODS TO DETECT CROCINS IN SAFFRON (M. Carmona, A. Zalacaín, M.I. Rodríguez, M.R. Salinas, G.L. Alonso) |
| IMPROVED CONDITIONS TO EXTRACT EXOGENOUS YELLOW WATER-SOLUBLE COLORANTS ADDED TO SAFFRON AVOIDING CROCETIN ESTERS INTERFERENCES (A. Zalacaín, I. Blázquez, E.M. Díaz-Plaza, M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso) |
| KINETIC STUDY OF THE PHOTODECOLORATION OF THE SAFFRON (M. del Rosario Haro, D. Escolar, C. Bueno, J. Ayuso) |
| CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) FROM FOUR COUNTRIES (H. Caballero-Ortega, R. Pereda-Miranda, L. Riverón-Negrete, J.M. Hernández, M. Medécigo-Ríos, A. Castillo-Villanueva, F.I. Abdullaev) |
| FT-NIR SPECTROMETRY APPROACH FOR DETERMINING SAFFRON ORIGIN (A. Zalacaín, E.M. Díaz-Plaza, I. Blázquez, M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso) |
| DETECTION OF ARTIFICIAL RED COLORANTS IN SAFFRON USING UV-VIS SPECTROMETRY AND TRISTIMULUS COLORIMETRY (S.A. Ordoudi, M.Z. Tsimidou) |
| DECONTAMINATION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) BY ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION (H.B. Ghoddusi, B. Glatz) |
| EVALUATION OF QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS AND MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION OF SAFFRON SAMPLES DRIED BY MICROWAVE (M.H. Nejad) |
| SAFFRON BY-PRODUCTS INTEGRATED VALORISATION USING AGRORESOURCE REFINING CONCEPT (ARC) (M. Bergoin, C. Raynaud, G. Vilarem, J.-M. Bessière, T. Talou) |
| EXTRACTION AND EVALUATION OF SAFFRON OLEORESIN (Q. Rajabzadeh, R. Malekzadeh, A. Sharif) |
| THE APPLICATION OF CROCIN AND SAFFRON ETHANOL-EXTRACTABLE COMPONENTS IN FORMULATION OF HEALTH CARE AND BEAUTY CARE PRODUCTS (H. Fekrat) |
| NEW SAFFRON PRODUCTS AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY (A. Shariati-Moghaddam) |
| A NEW LOOK AT SAFFRON: MISTAKEN BELIEFS (M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso) |
| HOW CAN ANTHROPOLOGY CONTRIBUTE TO THE EXPANSION OF SAFFRON PRODUCTION? (S. Helfer) |
| SAFFRON NEEDS MARKETING (J. Rohmeder) |
| ROOM TABLE: INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES FOR SAFFRON (J.-M. Thiercelin) |
| THE THERAPEUTIC AND PROPHYLACTIC EFFECTS OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (SAFFRON) IN SENILE DEMENTIA (H. Saito) |
| PREVENTION OF PC-12 CELL DEATH BY CROCIN VIA SPHINGOMYELINASE-CERAMIDE SIGNALING BY INCREASE OF GLUTATHIONE BIOSYNTHESIS (T. Ochiai, S. Soeda, S. Ohno, H. Shimeno, H. Tanaka, Y. Shoyama, J. Molnar, L. Berek, T. Bartok) |
| ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECT OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. STIGMA EXTRACTS AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS, CROCIN AND SAFRANAL, IN MICE (H. Hosseinzadeh, G. Karimi, M. Niapoor) |
| CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY OF NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL CAROTENOIDS OF SAFFRON (P.A. Tarantilis, M.G. Polissiou) |
| EFFECT OF SAFFRON ON THE VIABILITY OF NORMAL AND MALIGNANT HUMAN CELLS IN VITRO (F. Trujillo-Jiménez, P. García-López, A. Garcí-Carrancá, F.I. Abdullaev) |
| EVALUATION OF THE MUTAGENIC AND ANTIMUTAGENIC ACTIVITIES OF SAFFRON (J.M. Hernández, F.I. Abdullaev, H. Caballero-Ortega, L. Riverón-Negrete, I. Pérez-López, M. Medécigo-Ríos) |
| ADDITIVE INHIBITORY EFFECT OF SAFFRON IN COMBINATION WITH SODIUM SELENITE ON TUMOR CELLS (L. Riverón-Negrete, R. Camacho-Carranza, H. Caballero-Ortega, J.M. Hernández, M. Medécigo-Ríos, A. Castillo-Villanueva, I. Pérez-López, J.J. Espinosa-Aguirre, F. Abdullaev) |
| PRESENCE OF BIOACTIVE GLYCOCONJUGATES ON DIFFERENT STAGES OF SAFFRON CORM (A. Rubio, P. Fernández-Nohales, G. Gerwig, J. Escribano, J.P. Kamerling, J.-A. Fernández) |
| ANTITUMOR EFFECT OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.): OVERVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES (F.I. Abdullaev) |
