JOURNAL

Contents

Review

Plant Biotechnology of Tropane Alkaloids

Yasuvuki YAMADA and Mamoru TABATA. . . . . . . 1 [PDF]

Original Paper

Transformation of Soybean Embryogenic Cultures by Microprojectile Bombardment

Myeong-Je CHO, Lila O. VODKIN and Jack M. WIDHOLM. . . . . . . 11 [PDF]

Suitable Conditions for the Induction and Micropropagation of PLBs in Some Monopodial Orchids

Fumiaki KISHI, Yuukichi KAGAMI and Koujirou TAKAGI. . . . . . . 17 [PDF]

Organogenesis and Somatic Embryogenesis from Young Flower Buds of Agapanthus africanus Hoffmanns.

Kanyaratt SUPAIBULWATANA and Masahiro MII. . . . . . . 23 [PDF]

Plant Regeneration from Cell Suspension Culture Derived from Immature Embryo of Rose

Rongrong VISESSUWAN,Takashi KAWAI and Masahiro MII. . . . . . . 29 [PDF]

Basic Proteins Produced by Hairy Root Cultures of Trichosanthes kiriIowii var. japonica

Hajime MIZUKAMI, Toshiya KONDO and Yukio OGIHARA. . . . . . . 35 [PDF]

Hypersensitive Response-inducing Factor Secreted by Rice Blast Fungus on Suspension Cultured Cells of Rice

Kazunari NOMURA, Katsuya SATO,Shinji KAWASAKI and Kenji ISHII. . . . . . . 41 [PDF]

Plant Regeneration from Leaf Explants of Primula cuneifolia var. hakusanensis, “Hakusan-kozakura”

Takiko SHIMADA, Tomoyo MATSUSHITA and Motoyasu OTANl. . . . . . . 47 [PDF]

Analysis of Active-site Residues in Hyoscyamine 6beta-Hydroxylase

Jun MATSUDA, Takashi HASHIMOTO, and Yasuyuki YAMADA. . . . . . . 51 [PDF]

Tannins and Related Compounds in Callus and Root Cultures of Cornus capitata

Norie TANAKA, Koichiro SHIMOMURA, Takashi KAMIYA, Toshiaki KAYANO and Kanji ISHIMARU. . . . . . . 59 [PDF]

Glutathione Enhanced Anthraquinone Production in Adventitious Root Cultures of Rubia tinctorum L.

Kyoko SATO, Hiroki KUBOTA, Yukihiro GODA, Takashi YAMADA and Tamio MAITANl. . . . . . . 63 [PDF]

Short Communication

Low frequency of Somaclonal Variations in Floral Bud Culture-derived Plants of Vandotinetia (Orchidaceae)

Fumiaki KISHI, Kiyohiro HOSHlNO and Koujirou TAKAGI. . . . . . . 67 [PDF]

Expressed Sequence Tags in Developing Anthers of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Yukako HIHARA, Keiko SHODA, Qiang LlU, Chikage HARA, Masaaki UMEDA, Kinya TORIYAMA and Hirofumi UCHlYAMA. . . . . . . 71 [PDF]

Note

An Effective Culture of Ri Plasmid-induced Grape Hairy Roots

Sadaharu Ul, Akio IKEDA, Akio MIMURA, Tuyoshi MOCHIZUKI and Hiroshi KAMADA. . . . . . . 77 [PDF]

Improvement of Plating Efficiency on the Mesophyll Protoplast Culture of Chrysanthemum. Dendranthema X grandiaorum (Ram.) Kitam.

Motonobu ENDO, Nobuyuki FUJII, satoshi FUJITA and lkuko INADA. . . . . . . 81 [PDF]

Four Chitinase cDNASs from Chenopodium amaranticolor

Shigeo NAKAMUTRA, Takayoshi IWAI, Ryoso HONKURA, Masashi UGAKI, Masahiro OHSHIMA and Yuko OHASHI. . . . . . . 85 [PDF]