'Overall, this book provides a comprehensive update of biotechnology in an extensive range of woody plants. It is extremely informative, well written with good illustrations and includes a wide range of strategies and techniques utilised within this field. It is essential reading for all researchers involved in forest tree biotechnology and would be highly recommended to all plant science libraries.' Plant Growth Regulation, 22 (1997)

• 1. Clonal propagation of conifers via somatic embryogenesis.- 2. Effect of Glutamine and osmoticum on somatic embryo maturation in Norway spruce (Picea abies) (L.) Karst..- 3. Early events in somatic embryogenesis induction.- 4. Stability in ploidy level during somatic embryogenesis in Quercus canariensis.- 5. Identification of early markers of embryogenesis in pine.- 6. Somatic embryogenesis and somaclonal variation in Norway spruce: cytogenetic and molecular approaches.- 7. Towards water stress-tolerant poplar and pine trees: Molecular biology transformation and regeneration.- 8. Molecular approaches to maturation-caused decline in adventitious rooting in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.).- 9. A comparative study of embryogénic and non embryogénie cell cultures in Picea abies (L.) Karst. — Identification of mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms and detection of differentially expressed peptides.- 10. Priorties for application of biotechnology to plantation improvement.- 11. Genetic engineering of lignin biosynthesis in poplar.- 12. Stability and expression of chimeric genes in Populus.- 13. Stable genetic transformation in black spruce and tamarack and the transgenic expression of conifer genes.- 14. A strategy for the genetic manipulation of English elm.- 15. Foreign gene expression in Pinus nigra, P. radiata and P. pinea following p article bomb ardment.- 16. Plantlet regeneration via somatic embryogenesis and investigations on Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation of oak (Quercus robur).- 17. Highly efficient transformation and regeneration of transgenic aspen plants through shoot-bud formation in root culture, and transformation of Pinus halepensis.- 18. Expression of a proteinase inhibitor and a Bacillus thurigienssis ?-endotoxin in transgenic poplars.-19. Lignification genes in Eucalyptus: characterization, expression and subsequent use for lignin manipulation.- 20. Characterization of antisense chalcone synthase transgenic microcuttings.- 21. Higher extractability of lignin in poplar (Populus tremula x P. alba) by reducing cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase.- 22. Transgene expression in spruce and poplar: From the lab to the field.- 23. Floral homeotic genes for genetic engineering of reproductive sterility in poplars.- 24. Gene discovery in loblolly pine through cDNA sequencing.- 25. Molecular approaches to study bud dormacy in Populus.- 26. Molecular analysis of pine ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase.- 27. Differentially regulated gene sets in Douglas fir seeds and somatic embryos.- 28. The use of bulked segregant analysis to identify AFLP molecular markers closely linked to Melampsora larici-populina resistance in Populus.- 29. Quantitative traits and genetic markers: analysis of factorial mating design in larch.- 30. Development of micro satt elite loci from Quer eus robur and Quer eus petraea.- 31. Genetic dissection of phenotypic traits in maritime pine using RAPD and protein markers.- 32. Polymorphic simple sequence repeats in nuclear and chloroplast genomes: Applications to the population genetics of trees.- 33. RAPD-SCAR-SSCP: A method to detect molecular differentiation in closely related oak species.- 34. Molecular and genetic approaches to rust resistance (Melampsora sp.) in poplar (Populus sp.).- 35. Induced defense responses in Norway spruce.- 36. Ozone-induced defense reactions in birch (Betulapendula Roth).- 37. UV-B-induced gene expression in European beech and scots pine.- 38. Stress-related genes in woody plants: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regaulation.- Index 285.