List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - September

September issues have been quite generous for flow cytometry related works... This month will contemplate 8 highlights from many different areas... A sign that flow cytometry is being more and more applied in different fields of plant sciences.

Genome size:
Fuchs J, Jovtchev G, Schubert I. The chromosomal distribution of histone methylation marks in gymnosperms differs from that of angiosperms. Chromosome Research (2008) 16:891–898.

Smarda P, Bures P, Horová L, Rotreklová O. Intrapopulation genome size dynamics in Festuca pallens. Annals of Botany (2008) 102:599–607.

Ploidy level:
Biotechnology
Lim WS, Earle ED. Effect of in vitro and in vivo colchicine treatments on pollen production and fruit set of melon plants obtained by pollination with irradiated pollen. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 95:115-124.

Weber J, Georgiev V, Pavlov A, Bley T. Flow cytometric investigations of diploid and tetraploid plants and in vitro cultures of Datura stramonium and Hyoscyamus niger. Cytometry (2008) 73A:931-939.

Biosystematics

Consaul LL, Gillespie LJ, Waterway MJ. Systematics of three North American polyploid arctic alkali grasses (Puccinellia, Poaceae): morphology, ploidy, and AFLP markers. Botany (2008) 86:916-937.

Flow sorting:
Kofler R, Bartos J, Gong L, Stift G, Suchánková P, Simková H, Berenyi M, Burg K, Dolezel J, Lelley T. Development of microsatellite markers specific for the short arm of rye (Secale cereale L.) chromosome 1. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (2008) 117:915–926.

Algae physiological studies:
Li Y, Huang J, Sandmann G, Chen F. Glucose sensing and the mitochondrial alternative pathway are involved in the regulation of astaxanthin biosynthesis in the dark-grown Chlorella zofingiensis (Chlorophyceae). Planta (2008) 228:735–743.

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - June, July and August

Exceptionally, due to my recent busy times exposed in a previous post, this highlight of the recently published articles on Plant Flow Cytometry will include the months of June, July and August.

Genome size:
Thompson JN, Merg KF. Evolution of polyploidy and the diversification of plant-pollinator interactions. Ecology (2008) 89:2197-2206.

de Abreu IS, Carvalho CR, Clarindo WR. Chromosomal DNA content of sweet pepper determined by association of cytogenetic and cytometric tools. Plant Cell Reports (2008) 27:1227-1233.

Brito G, Loureiro J, Lopes T, Rodriguez E, Santos C. Genetic characterisation of olive trees from Madeira Archipelago using flow cytometry and microsatellite markers. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2008) 55:657-664.

Consaul LL, Gillespie LJ, Waterway MJ. Systematics of North American Arctic diploid Puccinellia (Poaceae): Morphology, DNA content, and AFLP markers. Systematic Botany (2008) 33:251-261.

Garcia S, Canela MA, Garnatje T, Mcarthur ED, Pellicer J, Sanderson SC, Valles J. Evolutionary and ecological implications of genome size in the North American endemic sagebrushes and allies (Artemisia, Asteraceae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2008) 94:631-649.

Stahlberg D, Hedren M. Systematics and phylogeography of the Dactylorhiza maculata complex (Orchidaceae) in Scandinavia: insights from cytological, morphological and molecular data. Plant Systematics and Evolution (2008) 273:107-132.

Eilam T, Anikster Y, Millet E, Manisterski J, Feldman M. Nuclear DNA amount and genome downsizing in natural and synthetic allopolyploids of the genera Aegilops and Triticum. Genome (2008) 51:616–627.

Ploidy level:
Biotechnology
Izumikawa Y, Takei S, Nakamura I, Mii M. Production and characterization of inter-sectional hybrids between Kalanchoe spathulata and K. laxiflora (= Bryophyllum crenatum). Euphytica (2008) 163:123-130.

Skrlep K, Bergant M, De Winter GM, Bohanec B, Zel J, Verpoorte R, Van Iren F, Camloh M. Cryopreservation of cell suspension cultures of Taxus x media and Taxus floridana. Biologia Plantarum (2008) 52:329-333.

Jin SX, Mushke R, Zhu HG, Tu LL, Lin ZX, Zhang YX, Zhang XL. Detection of somaclonal variation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) using cytogenetics, flow cytometry and molecular markers. Plant Cell Reports (2008) 27:1303-1316.

Yang XM, An LZ, Xiong YC, Zhang JP, Li Y, Xu SJ. Somatic embryogenesis from immature zygotic embryos and monitoring the genetic fidelity of regenerated plants in grapevine. Biologia Plantarum (2008) 52:209-214

Zdravkovic-Korac S, Calic-Dragosavac D, Uzelac B, Janosevic D, Budimir S, Vinterhalter B, Vinterhalter D. Secondary somatic embryogenesis versus caulogenesis from somatic embryos of Aesculus carnea Hayne.: developmental stage impact. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 94:225-231.

Biosystematics
Lubinsky P, Cameron KM, Molina MC, Wong M, Lepers-Andrzejewski S, Gomez-Pompa A, Kim SC. Neotropical roots of a Polynesian spice: The hybrid origin of Tahitian vanilla, Vanilla tahitensis (Orchidaceae). American Journal of Botany (2008) 95:1040-1047.

Mereda P, Hodalova I, Martonfi P, Kucera J, Lihova J. Intraspecific variation in Viola suavis in Europe: Parallel evolution of white-flowered morphotypes. Annals of Botany (2008) 102:443-462.

Schenk MF, Thienpont CN, Koopman WJM, Gilissen LJWJ, Smulders MJM. Phylogenetic relationships in Betula (Betulaceae) based on AFLP markers. Tree Genetics & Genomes (2008) 4:911-924.

Apomixis
Siena LA, Sartor ME, Espinoza F, Quarin CL, Ortiz JPA. Genetic and embryological evidences of apomixis at the diploid level in Paspalum rufum support recurrent auto-polyploidization in the species. Sexual Plant Reproduction (2008) 21:205-215.

Plant breeding
Martinez-Reyna JM, Vogel KP. Heterosis in switchgrass: Spaced plants. Crop Science (2008) 48:1312-1320.

Endoreduplication:
Teyssier E, Bernacchia G, Maury S, Kit AH, Stammitti-Bert L, Rolin D, Gallusci P. Tissue dependent variations of DNA methylation and endoreduplication levels during tomato fruit development and ripening. Planta (2008) 228:391-399.

Cell Cycle:
Da Silva EAA, Toorop PE, Van Lammeren AAM, Hilhorst HWM. ABA inhibits embryo cell expansion and early cell division events during coffee (Coffea arabica 'Rubi') seed germination. Annals of Botany (2008) 102:425-433.

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - May

Below is the list of papers that came to our hands/knowledge during the month of April. In here there are already included some of the contributions made through the FLOWer database webpage. Many thanks for the authors that contributed with their work.

Genome size:
Carvalho CR, Clarindo WE, Praça MM, Araújo FS, Carels N. Genome size, base composition and karyotype of Jatropha curcas L., an important biofuel plant. Plant Science (2008) 174:613-617.

Rossi AAB, Clarindo WR, Carvalho CR, Oliveira LO. Karyotype and nuclear DNA content of Psychotria ipecacuanha: a medicinal species. Cytologia 73 (2008):53–60.

Ecology
Ayres DR, Grotkopp E, Zaremba K, Sloop CM, Blum MJ, Bailey JP, Anttila CK, Strong DR. Hybridization between invasive Spartina densiflora (Poaceae) and native S. foliosa in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. American Journal of Botany (2008) 95:713-719.

Biotechnology
Makowczynska J, Andrzejewska-Golec E, Sliwinska E. Nuclear DNA content in different plant materials of Plantago asiatica L. cultured in vitro. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 94:65–71

Ploidy level:
Biotechnology
Kantartzi S, Roupakias DGProduction of aneuploids of the cotton hybrid G. barbadense x G. hirsutum L. via intergeneric pollination with Abelmoschus esculentus. Euphytica (2008) 161:319-327.

Orbovic V, Calovic M, Viloria Z, Nielsen B, Gmitter FG, Castle WS, Grosser JW. Analysis of genetic variability in various tissue culture-derived lemon plant populations using RAPD and flow cytometry. Euphytica (2008) 161:329-335.

Guillemin ML, Faugeron S, Destombe C, Viard F, Correa JA, Valero M. Genetic variation in wild and cultivated populations of the haploid-diploid red alga Gracilaria chilensis: how farming practices favor asexual reproduction and heterozygosity. Evolution (2008) 62-6: 1500–1519

Functional cytometry:
Apoptosis
Tilbrook J, Tyerman SD. Cell death in grape berries: varietal differences linked to xylem pressure and berry weight loss. Functional Plant Biology (2008) 35:173-184.

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - April

As a usual section of our blog, you can find below the list of papers that came to our hands/knowledge during the month of April.

Genome size:
Nucleotypic effect
Francis D, Davies MS, Barlow PW. A strong nucleotypic effect on the cell cycle regardless of ploidy level. Annals of Botany (2008) 101:747-757.

Ecology
Sweigart AL, Martin NH, Willis JH. Patterns of nucleotide variation and reproductive isolation between a Mimulus allotetraploid and its progenitor species. Molecular Ecology (2008) 17:2089-2100.

Ploidy level:
Biotechnology
Ochatt SJ, Sangwan RS. In vitro shortening of generation time in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 93:133-137.

Zale J, Ohnoutkova L, West D, Sams C, Biggerstaff J, Le Pull M. Micropropagation of field-grown perennial teosinte from node culture. Crop Science (2008) 48:651-655.

Soriano M, Cistue L, Castillo AM. Enhanced induction of microspore embryogenesis after n-butanol treatment in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) anther culture. Plant Cell Reports (2008) 27:805-811.

Leskovsek L, Jakse M, Bohanec B. Doubled haploid production in rocket (Eruca sativa Mill.) through isolated microspore culture. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 93:181-189.

Biosystematics
Arndt S. Novelties in the Festuca valesiaca group (Poaceae) from the central Alps. Plant Systematics and Evolution (2008) 271:129-142.

Toxicology
Bakos F, Darkó E, Gáspár L, Ambrus H, Barnabás B. A cytological study on aluminium-treated wheat anther cultures resulting in plants with increased Al tolerance. Plant breeding (2008) 127:235-240.

The future of scientific publishing... Is Thomson under fire?

In a nice editorial that came to my acquaintance, Koen Martens, the editor-in-chief of Hydrobiologia, makes a nice overview of the current state of scientific publishing world, as well as, envisaging the near future.

You can get it here: http://springerlink.com/content/1501276217582647/fulltext.pdf (it is of open access)

Picture taken from http://culturecat.net/taxonomy/term/32

Of particular interest are the issues of the impact factors and their values (from Thomson’s ISI). Actually, it was only after reading this editorial that I realized that there are already several publications that, as I expected through my discussions with several colleagues, question the validity of these impact factors and on the excessive importance that they actually have (e.g., promotion or hiring of personel, grant applications, salary bonuses). Actually in an interesting editorial of The Journal of Cell Biology, it is questioned the validity of Thomson Scientific impact factors and the inability of the company to give the basic data used to calculate the impact factors. This editorial gives some nice insights on how this data can somehow be manipulated in order to improve a journal impact factor.

I think that most of the current problems are due to a lack of competition on this area. However, just recently some new tools are available that can provide further insights on the impacts that a specific publication is having. As presented in Nature, a free journal-ranking tool is now available through SCImago (since December of last year). It is called SCImago Journal & Country Rank database and presents a new rank called SJR, that analyses the citation links between journals in a series of iterative cycles, similarly as Google PageRank algorithm. Therefore not all the citations are considered equally, with those coming from journals with higher SJR having more weight. Also, contrarily to the two year citation window of JCR impact factors, the SJR ranking uses the last three years and the Scopus reference database.

From my initial tests this ranking seems to be very interesting, but the rooting of the current impact factors is so deep that I envisage a long period before this or other ranks can start to be considered. At least this a beginning.

You can test it in here for free: http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php.

A similar citation index is the Eigenfactor (http://www.eigenfactor.org/), that despite being based on Thomson data, also uses the method behind Google's PageRank.

So, as Declan Butler said in his news section in Nature, is Thomson going to be under fire?

P.S. Many thanks to my colleague Bruno Castro (Department of Biology, University of Aveiro) for sending me the editorial that originated this post, and I hope, future discussion on impact factors.

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - March

You can find in here the articles that were recently published on plant flow cytometry. We decided also to highlight one manuscript that was already published in 2007, but due to its omission from previous posts, and because of its importance, we found that it was relevant to add to this post.

This months highlight paper:
Leitch IJ, Beaulieu JM, Cheung K, Hanson L, Lysak MA, Fay MF. Punctuated genome size evolution in Liliaceae. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2007) 20:2296-2308.

Ploidy level:
Ecology
Halverson K, Heard SB, Nason JD, Stireman III JO. Differential attack on diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid Solidago altissima L. by five insect gallmakers. Oecologia (2008) 154:755–761.

Fortune PM, Pourtau N, Viron N, Ainouche ML. Molecular phylogeny and reticulate origins of the polyploid Bromus species from section Genea (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany (2008) 95: 454–464.

Biotechnology
Thieme R, Rakosy-Tican E, Gavrilenko T, Antonova O, Schubert J, Nachtigall M, Heimbach U, Thieme T. Novel somatic hybrids (Solanum tuberosum L. + Solanum tarnii) and their fertile BC1 progenies express extreme resistance to potato virus Y and late blight. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (2008) 116:691-700.

Thomas, TD, Chaturvedi R. Endosperm culture: a novel method for triploid plant production. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 93:1-14.

Vogel J, Hill T. High-efficiency Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Brachypodium distachyon inbred line Bd21-3. Plant Cell Reports (2008) 27:471-478.

Plant breeding
Cidade FW, Dall'Agnol M, Bered F, de Souza-Chies TT Genetic diversity of the complex Paspalum notatum Flugge (Paniceae : Panicoideae). Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2008) 55:235-246.

FLOWer database statistics - Top 10 journals of plant DNA flow cytometry

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - February

This past month of February, unfortunately, not so many papers on plant flow cytometry came to our hands. Either the publication rate was lower than usual, or we were not so aware of the current contents available in this month's journals. Nevertheless you can always contribute to this topic by sending us some notice about missing publications.

Ploidy level:
Ramsey J, Robertson A, Husband. Rapid adaptive divergence in new world Achillea, an autopolyploid complex of ecological races. Evolution (OnlineEarly)

Trenchard LJ, Harris PJC, Smith SJ, Pasiecznik NM. A review of ploidy in the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (2008) 156:425–438

Jurado S, Díaz-Triviño S, Abraham Z, Manzano C, Gutierrez C, del Pozo C. SKP2A, an F-box protein that regulates cell division, is degraded via the ubiquitin pathway. The Plant Journal (2008) 53:828–841

Perera PIP, Hocher V, Verdeil J-L, Bandupriya HDD, Yakandawala DMD, Weerakoon LK. Androgenic potential in coconut (Cocos nucifera L.). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 92:293–302

Beer consumption vs. scientific performance

Yes, it is true, someone made it, and the results are according to my predictions surprising. Tomás Grim from the Department of Zoology of Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic) correlated the consumption of alcohol, particularly beer, with the publication output, using the "ecologists of Czech Republic" as the study group. And he was able to publish it in a renowned journal of ecology (Oikos).

So, the results showed that an increasing beer consumption per capita is associated with lower numbers of papers, total citations, and citations per paper. Not to talk, with an increase of "belly" diameter (data not shown in the paper).

Below follows the abstract and the link for the full text (if available from Blackwell Publishing):

Publication output is the standard by which scientific productivity is evaluated. Despite a plethora of papers on the issue of publication and citation biases, no study has so far considered a possible effect of social activities on publication output. One of the most frequent social activities in the world is drinking alcohol. In Europe, most alcohol is consumed as beer and, based on well known negative effects of alcohol consumption on cognitive performance, I predicted negative correlations between beer consumption and several measures of scientific performance. Using a survey from the Czech Republic, that has the highest per capita beer consumption rate in the world, I show that increasing per capita beer consumption is associated with lower numbers of papers, total citations, and citations per paper (a surrogate measure of paper quality). In addition I found the same predicted trends in comparison of two separate geographic areas within the Czech Republic that are also known to differ in beer consumption rates. These correlations are consistent with the possibility that leisure time social activities might influence the quality and quantity of scientific work and may be potential sources of publication and citation biases.

Link

Enjoy your reading!

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - December and January

This month exceptionally we will post the recently published papers of the last two months, December and January.

Review:
Knight CA, Beaulieu JM. Genome size scaling through phenotype space. Annals of Botany (online)

Genome size:

Leitch IJ, Hanson L, Lim KY, Kovarik A, Chase MW, Clarkson JJ, Leitch AR. The ups and downs of genome size evolution in polyploid species of Nicotiana (Solanaceae). Annals of Botany (online)

Smarda P, Bures P, Horová L, Foggi B, Rossi G. Genome size and GC content evolution of Festuca: ancestral expansion and subsequent reduction. Annals of Botany (2008) 101:421-433

Ploidy level:
Kubátová B, Trávnícek P, Bastlová D, Curn V, Jarolímová V, Suda J. DNA ploidy-level variation in native and invasive populations of Lythrum salicaria at a large geographical scale. Journal of Biogeography 35:167-176

Halverson K, Heard SB, Nason JD, Stireman JO, III. Origins, distribution, and local co-occurrence of polyploid cytotypes in Solidago altissima (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany (2008) 95:50-58

Clarindo WR, de Carvalho CR, Araújo FS, Abreu IS, Otoni WC. Recovering polyploid papaya in vitro regenerants as screened by flow cytometry. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 92:207-214

Shi Y, Xu G, Warrington TB, Murdoch GK, Kazala EC, Snyder CL, Weselake RJ. Microspore-derived cell suspension cultures of oilseed rape as a system for studying gene expression. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 92:131-139

Nimura M, Kato J, Mii M, Ohishi K. Cross-compatibility and the polyploidy of progenies in reciprocal backcrosses between diploid carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) and its amphidiploid with Dianthus japonicus Thunb. Scientia Horticulturae (2008) 115:183-189

Technical article - cytosolic compounds:
Bennett M, Price HJ, Johnston JS. Anthocyanin inhibits propidium iodide DNA Fluorescence in Euphorbia pulcherrima: implications for genome size variation and flow cytometry. Annals of Botany (online)

If you fell that there are some papers missing (e.g., your papers), please send an e-mail to jloureiro@ua.pt or leave a comment on this post.

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - November

Genome size:

Błocka-Wandas M, Sliwinska E, Grabowska-Joachimiak A, Musial K, Joachimiak AJ. Male gametophyte development and two different DNA classes of pollen grains in Rumex acetosa L., a plant with an XX/XY₁Y₂ sex chromosome system and a female-biased sex ratio. Sexual Plant Reproduction (2007) 20:171-180

Simonovik B, Ivancic A, Jakse J, Bohanec B. Production and genetic evaluation of interspecific hybrids within the genus Sambucus. Plant Breeding (2007) 126:628-633

Besnard G, Garcia-Verdugo C, Rubio De Casas R, Treier UA, Galland N, Vargas P. Polyploidy in the Olive complex (Olea europaea): evidence from flow cytometry and nuclear microsatellite analyses. Annals of Botany (2008) 101: 25-30

Siljak-Yakovlev S, Stevanovic V, Tomasevic M, Brown SC, Stevanovic B. Genome size variation and polyploidy in the resurrection plant genus Ramonda: Cytogeography of living fossils. Environmental and Experimental Botany (2008) 62:101–112


Ploidy level:
Schönswetter P, Lachmayer M, Lettner C, Prehsler D, Rechnitzer S, Reich DS, Sonnleitner M, Wagner I, Hülber K, Schneeweiss GM, Trávnícek P, Suda J. Sympatric diploid and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) in the Eastern Alps are separated along an altitudinal gradient. Journal of Plant Research (2007) 120:721-725

Tiébré MS, Bizoux JP, Hardy OJ, Bailey JP, Mahy G. Hybridization and morphogenetic variation in the invasive alien Fallopia (Polygonaceae) complex in Belgium. American Journal of Botany (2007) 94:1900–1910

Okada T, Catanach AS, Johnson SD, Bicknell RA, Koltunow AM. An Hieracium mutant, loss of apomeiosis 1 ( loa1 ) is defective in the initiation of apomixis. Sexual Plant Reproduction (2007) 20:199-211

Abel S, Becker HC. The effect of autopolyploidy on biomass production in homozygous lines of Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. Plant Breeding (2007) 126:642-643

Sheng X, Liu F, Zhu Y, Zhao H, Zhang L, Chen B. Production and analysis of intergeneric somatic hybrids between Brassica oleracea and Matthiola incana. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2008) 92:55-62

Kao RH. Origins and widespread distribution of co-existing polyploids in Arnica cordifolia (Asteraceae). Annals of Botany (2008) 101:145–152

Mráz P, Singliarová B, Urfus T, Krahulec F. Cytogeography of Pilosella officinarum (Compositae): altitudinal and longitudinal differences in ploidy level distribution in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the general pattern in Europe. Annals of Botany (2008) 101:59-71

List of recently published papers on plant flow cytometry - October

After some silent period, we have decided to open a new monthly section where the recently published papers will be listed. This list corresponds to the manuscripts published on the month of October.

Reviews:
Kron P, Suda J, Husband BC. Applications of Flow Cytometry to Evolutionary and Population Biology. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38 (online)

Greilhuber J. Cytochemistry and C-values: The Less-well-known World of Nuclear DNA Amounts. Annals of Botany (online) (From the forthcoming special issue Plant Genome Horizons).

Technical report:
Roberts AV. The use of bead beating to prepare suspensions of nuclei for flow cytometry from fresh leaves, herbarium leaves, petals and pollen. Cytometry (online).

Genome size:
Loureiro J, Kopecky D, Castro S, Santos C, Silveira P. Flow cytometric and cytogenetic analyses of Iberian Peninsula Festuca spp. Plant Systematics and Evolution (2007) 269:89–105

Suda J, Krahulcová A, Trávnícek P, Rosenbaumová R, Peckert T, Krahulec F. Genome Size Variation and Species Relationships in Hieracium Sub-genus Pilosella (Asteraceae) as Inferred by Flow Cytometry. Annals of Botany (2007) 100:1323–1335

Eilam T, Anikster Y, Millet E, Manisterski J, Sagi-Assif O, Feldman M. Genome size and genome evolution in diploid Triticeae species. Genome (2007) 50:1029-1037

Ploidy level:
Gillis K, Gielis J, Peeters H, Dhooghe E, Oprins J. Somatic embryogenesis from mature Bambusa balcooa Roxburgh as basis for mass production of elite forestry bamboos. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2007) 91:115–123

Bidani A, Nouri-Ellouz O, Lakhoua L, Sihachakr D, Cheniclet C, Mahjoub A, Drira N, Gargouri-Bouzid R. Interspecific potato somatic hybrids between Solanum berthaultii and Solanum tuberosum L. showed recombinant plastome and improved tolerance to salinity. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2007) 91:179–189

Soriano M, Cistué L, Vallés MP, Castillo AM. Effects of colchicine on anther and microspore culture of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2007) 91:225–234

Fiuk A, Rybczynski JJ. The effect of several factors on somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in protoplast cultures of Gentiana kurroo (Royle). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2007) 91:263–271

Coelho CM, Wu S, Li Y, Hunter B, Dante RA, Cui Y, Wu R, Larkins BA. Identification of quantitative trait loci that affect endoreduplication in maize endosperm. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (2007) 115:1147–1162

Sharma SK, Bryan GJ, WinWeld MO, Millam S. Stability of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants regenerated via somatic embryos, axillary bud proliferated shoots, microtubers and true potato seeds: a comparative phenotypic, cytogenetic and molecular assessment. Planta (2007) 226:1449–1458

Fras A, Juchimiuk J, Siwinska D, Maluszynska J. Cytological events in explants of Arabidopsis thaliana during early callogenesis. Plant Cell Rep (2007) 26:1933–1939

Allum JF, Bringloe DH, Roberts AV. Chromosome doubling in a Rosa rugosa Thunb. hybrid by exposure of in vitro nodes to oryzalin: the effects of node length, oryzalin concentration and exposure time. Plant Cell Reports (2007) 26:1977–1984

Fatta Del Bosco S, Siragusa M, Abbate L, Lucretti S, Tusa N. Production and characterization of new triploid seedless progenies for mandarin improvement. Scientia Horticulturae (2007) 114:258–262

Functional Plant FCM:
Yang J, Ma L, Zhang Y, Fang F, Li L. Flow cytometric identification of two diffeent rhodamine-123-stained mitochondrial populations in maize leaves. Protoplasma (2007) 231:249-252.

If there is any recent paper missing, please post its link in the comments that we will update this post accordingly. Once again, your contribution is very important.