Table of Contents:
  • Special lecture: The origin, diversity, and biology of shoot-borne roots / Peter W. Barlow
  • Commercial importance of adventitious rooting to agronomy / John L. Kovar and Rolf O. Kuchenbuch
  • Commercial application of adventitious rooting to forestry / Gary A. Ritchie
  • Commercial importance of adventitious rooting to horticulture / Fred T. Davies, Jr., Tim D. Davis and Dale E. Kester
  • Genomic manipulation of plant materials for adventitious rooting research / Don E. Riemenschneider
  • Model systems for studying adventitious root formation / Stephen G. Ernst
  • Novel experimental systems for determining cellular competence, and determination / Debra Mohnen
  • Differential competence for adventitious root formation in histologically similar cell types / John R. Murray, M. Concepcion Sanchez, Alan G. Smith and Wesley P. Hackett
  • Biochemical and molecular markers of cellular competence for adventitious rooting / Paul Hand.