Table of Contents

Plenary Lectures.- Current Advances in Plant Tissue Culture Techniques.- Current Advances in Plant Molecular Biology.- Functional Genomics.- Plant Transformation Technology.- In vitro System as the Model for Discovery in Molecular Biology.- Molecular Control of Abiotic Resistance.- Plant Insect Interaction.- Molecular Mechanisms on Plant-Microbe Interactions.- Metabolic Engineering.- Improving Nutritional Quality of Crops.- Signal Transduction.- Apomixis.- Biotechnology in Cereals.- Biotechnology in Economic Crops.- Biotechnology in Medicinal, Woody and Horticultural Plants.- Tissue Culture for Biodiversity Preservation.- Plants as Bioreacter/Molecular Pharming.- Molecular Breeding.- Regeneration, Micropropagation and Industrialization.- Protoplasts, Haploids and Embryo Culture in Crop Improvement.- Technology Transfer to Developing Countries.