Protoplasts 1983 Lecture Proceedings

Recent developments in the culture and regeneration of plant protoplasts; Protoplast culture and plant regeneration of cereals and other recalcitrant crops; Protoplasts and the isolation of plant mutants; Protoplasts and variation from culture; Systems for plant protoplast transformation; Recent developments in plant protoplast fusion and selection technology; Somatic hybridization by plant protoplast fusion; The segregation of organelles and cytoplasmic traits in higher plant somatic fusion hybrids; The first mitotic cycle of mesophyll protoplasts; Protoplasts for studies of the plasma membrane and associated cell organelles; The use of protoplasts in plant virus research; Applications of protoplast technology to agriculture; Organelle transfer, sorting out, recombination; Plant protoplasts as tools for physiological studies; Genetic transformation; Protoplasts as tools in pathology, virology and plant-microbe interactions; Current questions of gene transfer via protoplast fusion in microorganisms (Opening adress); Advances in protoplast fusion and transformation in Streptomyces; Chromosome interactions and expression in fused Bacillus protoplasts; Yeast strain improvement by protoplast fusion and transformation; Protoplasts of filamentous fungi in genetics and metabolite production; Interspecific somatic hybridisation in Aspergillus; Synthesis and assembly of wall polymers on regenerating yeast protoplasts; The theory and practical applications of liposome-protoplast interactions; Transport of nutrients in yeast protoplast; Protoplasts and spheroplasts of gram-negative bacteria - with special emphasis on proteus mirabilis; Characteristic properties and biological significance of stable protoplast type L-forms; Advances in microbial protoplasts (Bacillus licheniformis lactamase and the protoplast surface); Fungal protoplasts as genetic tools; Non-complementing diploids: prokaryotic microorganism protoplast fusion and chromosome inactivation.