Horticulture - New Technologies and Applications

Advan ces in production technology.- System analysis of yield trials can raise efficiency of breeding for yield.- Research needs in the production of high quality seeds.- Breeding for quality and resistance to fusarial wilt in gladiolus.- Reproductive biology of potato: Basis for true seed production.- Resistance breeding under coordinated programme.- Quality improvement of Punjab grapes.- Exploitation of allien genes for yellow vein mosaic resistance in okra.- Use of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) as biofertilizer for horticultural plants in developing countries.- Foliar feeding of zinc and iron in peach.- Conservation of wild plants of horticultural importance from Tumkur district, Karnataka.- Potential of seed storage at ambient temperature using organic liquids to avoid refrigeration.- Chemical weeding as a labour saving device in management of fruit nurseries.- Role of germplasm in Citrus rootstock improvement.- Comparative efficacy of single and split applied nitrogen on yield and quality of 'Perlette' grapes.- Induced mutations recovered in M2 and subsequent generations in three varieties of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench).- Plant genetic manipulation.- Role of viruses in plant biotechnology.- Microbial populations, host-specific virulence & plant resistance genes.- Genetically engineered resistance in plants against viral infection.- Genetic engineering and transformation of monocots for crop improvement.- Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer in Citrus reticulata Blanco.- Regeneration and genetic transformation studies in watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris L. cv. Melitopolski).- Molecular aspects of cytokinin's stymied action on auxin-mediated new root formation in the hypocotyls of Phaseolus vulgaris L..- Plant cell and tissue culture.- Commercial aspects of micropropagation.- Large scale micropropagation: it's strategic use in horticulture.- Micropropagation of bulb crops.- Current status of forest biotechnology.- Large scale secondary metabolite production: the sanguinarine story.- Current research on micropropagation of Sulcorebutia alba Rausch, Syringa vulgaris L., Hip-peastrum hybrids and Tulipa hybrids.- Plant cell culture and food biotechnology: current trends and future prospects.- Tissue culture propagation: problems and potentials.- Micropropagation and plant conformity in Anthurium andreanum.- Rapid in vitro propagation of virus-indexed Freesia.- Effect of culture media and growth regulators on in vitro propagation of rose.- Shoot tip culture method for rapid clonal propagation of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.).- Tissue culture strategies for banana.- Gynogenic plants from ovary cultures of Mulberry (Morus indica).- Induction of high frequency somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in mandarins.- Tissue culture of medicinal plants: morphogenesis, direct regeneration and somatic embryogenesis.- Production of important phytochemicals through plant cell cultures and scale-up operations: limitations and prospects.- Establishment of somatic cell culture and plant regeneration in grapes (Vitis vinifera L.).- In-ovulo embryo culture in seedless grapes (Vitis vinifera L.).- Micropropagation of Davana (Artemisia pallens Wall.) by tissue culture.- Clonal propagation of bamboo, coffee and mimosa.- Greenhouse technology.- Greenhouse environmental control for Indian conditions.- New seed-grown cut flowers for floriculture industry.- Cut flowers in the Western Hemisphere.- Decision support for integrated greenhouse production systems.- Greenhouse pot plant production in the United States.- Robotics applications to transplanting of plug seedlings.- Plant health and crop protection.- Immunological and molecular approaches to the diagnosis of viruses infecting horticultural crops.- Viruses of ornamentals - identification and diagnosis.- Protein-A supplemented immune electron microscopy for diagnosis of potato viruses X, S, Y and leafroll.- Production of virus-tested seed potatoes.- Pesticide deconta