First review to the book Flow Cytometry with Plant Cells

The last issue of Cytometry part A (Volume 73A Issue 6) has just published the first review to the book Flow Cytometry with Plant Cells: Analysis of Genes, Chromosomes and Genomes that was launched last year (see the side bar for full details). The review was made by Dr. Sergio Ochatt from the INRA, Dijon, France and the author carefully summarized what the book has to offer.You can download it for free by clicking this link.


As an author of one chapter I am very happy to finally see a review to the book. I am positive that it will be a good promotion to the book, helping it to reach an even broader number of researchers.

Just one final remark: on the review there is an error on the link to the FLOWer database. The correct link is: http://flower.web.ua.pt/.

New book - Protocols for Micropropagation of Woody Trees and Fruits

A book on the micropropagation of woody trees and fruits has just been published by Springer Netherlands. Congratulations to the editors Mohan Jain S and Häggman H, for the nice collection of protocols. Flow cytometry was not forgotten and it was used in several protocols as an important tool to analyse the genetic fidelity of the obtained plants.

Below is the list of chapters where flow cytometry was employed:

S. Korban and I. Sul. Micropropagation of Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). pp. 23-32

C. Santos, J. Loureiro, T. Lopes and G. Pinto. Genetic Fidelity Analyses of In Vitro Propagated Cork Oak (Quercus suber L.). pp. 67-83

B. Pintos, J. Manzanera and M. Bueno. Protocol for Doubled-Haploid Micropropagation in Quercus suber L. and Assisted Verification. pp. 163-178

S. Murch, D. Ragone, W. Shi, A. Alan and P. Saxena. In vitro conservation and Micropropagation of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, Moracea). pp. 279-288

M. Ostrolucká, A. Gajdošová, G. Libiaková, K. Hrubíková and M. Bežo. Protocol for Micropropagation of Selected Vaccinium spp. pp. 445-455

M. Ostrolucká, A. Gajdošová, G. Libiaková and E. Ondrušková. Protocol for Micropropagation of Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. pp. 457-464

J. Al-Khayri. Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera L. Micropropagation. pp. 509-526