Protoplasts 1983: Lecture Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Recent Developments in the Culture and Regeneration of Plant Protoplasts....Pages 19-29
Protoplast Culture and Plant Regeneration of Cereals and Other Recalcitrant Crops....Pages 31-41
Protoplasts and the Isolation of Plant Mutants....Pages 43-50
Protoplasts and Variation from Culture....Pages 51-56
Systems for Plant Protoplast Transformation....Pages 57-60
Recent Developments in Plant Protoplast Fusion and Selection Technology....Pages 61-67
Somatic Hybridization by Plant Protoplast Fusion....Pages 69-84
The Segregation of Organelles and Cytoplasmic Traits in Higher Plant Somatic Fusion Hybrids....Pages 85-92
The First Mitotic Cycle of Mesophyll Protoplasts....Pages 93-100
Protoplasts for Studies of the Plasma Membrane and Associated Cell Organelles....Pages 101-110
The Use of Protoplasts in Plant Virus Research....Pages 111-122
Applications of Protoplast Technology to Agriculture....Pages 123-126
Organelle Transfer, Sorting Out, Recombination....Pages 129-129
Plant Protoplasts as Tools for Physiological Studies....Pages 130-131
Genetic Transformation....Pages 131-132
Protoplasts as Tools in Pathology, Virology and Plant-Microbe Interactions....Pages 132-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Current Questions of Gene Transfer via Protoplast Fusion in Microorganisms....Pages 137-142
Advances in Protoplast Fusion and Transformation in Streptomyces ....Pages 143-148
Chromosome Interactions and Expression in Fused Bacillus Protoplasts....Pages 149-154
Yeast Strain Improvement by Protoplast Fusion and Transformation....Pages 155-166
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Protoplasts of Filamentous Fungi in Genetics and Metabolite Production....Pages 167-178
Interspecific Somatic Hybridisation in Aspergillus....Pages 179-186
Synthesis and Assembly of Wall Polymers on Regenerating Yeast Protoplasts....Pages 187-195
The Theory and Practical Applications of Liposome-Protoplast Interactions....Pages 197-207
Transport of Nutrients in Yeast Protoplasts....Pages 209-212
Protoplasts and Spheroplasts of Gram-Negative Bacteria (With Special Emphasis on Proteus mirabilis )....Pages 213-225
Characteristic Properties and Biological Significance of Stable Protoplast Type L-Forms....Pages 227-241
Advances in Microbial Protoplasts ( Bacillus licheniformis β-lactamase and the Protoplast Surface)....Pages 243-247
Fungal Protoplasts as Genetic Tools....Pages 251-251
Non-Complementing Diploids: Prokaryotic Microorganism Protoplast Fusion and Chromosome Inactivation....Pages 251-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-270