There is a renaissance of interest in the genetics of higher plants fueled in part by the
likelihood of improvements in crop species through genetic engineering. This has …

When maize seedlings were exposed to cold stress, a genome-wide demethylation occurred
in root tissues. Screening of genomic DNA identified one particular fragment that was …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the DNA rearrangements in response to the
environmental stress. Genotypic responses to changes in the environment are less …

Plant developmental stability has received little attention in the past three or four decades.
Here we review differences in plant and animal development, and discuss the advantages of …

Levels of induced homologous recombination between chromosomal repeats in plant
somatic cells were examined. Transgenic plants of Nicotiana tabacum hemi-or homozygous …

Wheat is the second most important cereal crop in the world. From the earlier radiocarbon
dated remains, its existence as a tetraploid wild emmer variety was established around 6700 …

What processes account for the remarkable variation in form and function that we see in the
living world and how might they be similar or different between microorganisms and …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the importance of relating the phenomena
encountered in tissue culture to the events occurring in vivo at the entire plant level …

Red beet cell lines exhibiting a range of cell colours were generated from secondary callus
via specific induction methods. Phenotype colour ranged from white/green through yellow …

A great deal of information has been accumulated on chromosome numbers and
heterochromatin distribution as well as on genome size and organization in the mosquito …