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Contents 1. Recent developments and issues in plant sciences/Govind Chandra Sharma. 2. Agrobacterium mediated gene transfer in plants a review/D.K. Srivastava. 3. Biotechnology miracle or mirage II. remarkable genetic system of agrobacterium/C. Nirmala and M.L.H. Kaul. 4. Synthetic seed technology as a method for plant propagation and delivery of tissue cultured plants/P.S. Rao T.R. Ganapathi P. Suprasanna and V.A. Bapat. 5. Maturation and desiccation of somatic embryos/V.A. Bapat and P.S. Rao. 6. Commercial application of medicinal plant biotechnology/M.R. Heble and G.Roja. 7. Genetic variation in vitro cultured plant cells and in the progenies of Regenerated plants/S.J. Jambhulkar and C.R. Bhatia. 8. In vitro response as aid to measure genetic diversity/Sumitra Sen. 9. Phytochrome flowering genes and biotechnology/S.C. Maheshwari. 10. Tissue culture of aquatic plants and its applications/H.Y. Mohan Ram and Anuradha Agrawal. 11. Auxin calcium interaction in plant growth and development/S.C. Bhatla Geetika Kalra and Sangeeta Kapoor. 12. Role of Glyoxalase I in cell proliferation in higher plants/Renu Deswal and Sudhir K. Sopory. 13. Rapid propagation of Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm. through tissue culture/R.I.S. Gill S.S. Gill and S.S. Gosal. 14. Regeneration and phenolics in explants and callus of Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels/Shashi Mathur L.K. Pareek and N. Chandra. 15. Cellular approaches to salt tolerance in wheat/E.J.Joseph and I.D. Nikiforova. 16. Manipulation of wheat protein quality/P.R. Shewry A.S. Tatham N.G. Halford F.Barro P. Barcelo and P. Lazzeri. 17. Cellular selection and characterization of Pea lines resistant to culture filtrate of fusarium oxysporum/Ashok Kumar D.K. Srivastava V.K. Gupta and U.K. Kohli. 18. Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from immature Cotyledons of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)/P. Sagare K. Suhasini and K.V. Krishnamurthy. 19. Direct somatic embryogenesis in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)/K. Suhasini A.P. Sagare and K.V. Krishnamurthy. 20. Regeneration of water stress tolerant callus culture of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)/D.K. Srivastava V.K. Gupta and D.R Sharma. 21. Biochemical mechanism of salt tolerance in tomato cultivars/G.Jansi Rani and G. Balakrishnamurthy. 22. In vitro evaluation and regeneration of tomato under NaCl stress/G. Jansi Rani and G. Balakrishnamurthy. 23. In vitro selection of atrazine tolerant cell lines and regeneration studies in Brassica campestris/G.S. Virk and Jaswinder Kaur. 24. Cotton ovule culture a tool for understanding development and quality/C.P. Malik Bir Singh and Pushp Sharma. 25. Microspore embryogenesis in Brassica juncea/Abha Agnihotri G. Seguin Swartz and R.K. Downey. 26. In vitro morphogenesis and microcorm production in Gladiolus/H.S. Grewal S.S. Gosal and J.S. Arora. 27. Callus growth response of sunflower explants cultured in vitro/Puspita Samantaray Gyanaranjan Rout and Prasanta K. Behera. 28. Vitro trees of cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) a preliminary evaluation/Smitha Hegde L. D'Souza Icy D'Silva Alice C. Augustine. 29. Micro propagation of plum (Prunus domestica L.)Atul Kumar Vandana A. Kumar and M.C. Nautiyal. 30. Plantlet regeneration from Seed culture of Arundina graminifolia (D.Don) Hochr. and establishment of plantlets under natural conditions/C.M. Sarma and Suchismita Roy. 31. Direct embryo formation and regeneration of plants from embryogenic protoplasts of ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Mayer)/Sarita Arya Inder Dev Arya Jang R. Liu and Tage Eriksson. 32 Rapid micropropagation of populus Euramericana trees by callus culture/Veena Agrawal and Shrish C. Gupta. 33. Direct somatic embryogenesis from immature seeds of rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.)/G. Lakshmi Sita and M. Muralidhara Rao. 34. Direct organogenesis from internodal segments and apical meristem of shoots of Jatropha curcas L./Neena Nigam O.P. Saxena and Vincent Braganza. 35. Bioassay for anti tumor compounds in callus extracts of phyllanthus sps. and Euphorb