Volume 15 No. 2 (supplement) March – April, 2010

ROMANIAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LETTERS

– an international journal –

CONTENTS

Cover: The Bucharest University Building

1.	Introduction	……………	1
2.	OTTO TOLDI, ZOLTÁN TUBA and PETER SCOTT Can lessons learned from resurrection plants be extended over crop plant species?	……………	3
3.	ANCA NICOLETA SUTAN, AUREL POPESCU, VALENTINA ISAC In vitro culture medium and explant type effect on callogenesis and shoot regeneration in two genotypes of ornamental strawberry	……………	12
4.	SVETLANA SMEREA, LARISA ANDRONIC, TATIANA GRIGOROV, VALERIU BUJOREANU In vitro regenerative genotypic specifity of meristems from virus infected grapevine cultivars	……………	19
5.	RALUCA NICOLETA GHEORGHE, CARMEN FLORENTINA POPESCU, DORU PAMFIL, CRISTINA NICOLETA CIOCARLAN Genetic diversity of some Romanian grapevine cultivars as revealedby microsatellite markers	……………	26
6.	POPESCU SORINA, IOJA-BOLDURA OANA-MARIA The six knox genes identification on tetraploid Medicago sativa,based on the model plant resources	……………	32
7.	POP IULIA FRANCESCA, DORU PAMFIL, PAUL RAICA, IOANA VIRGINIA PETRICELE, CRISTIAN SISEA, ESZTER VAS, BEATA BOTOS, MONICA BODEA, MIHAI BOTU Assessment of the genetic variability among some Juglans cultivars from the Romanian National Collection at S.C.D. P. Vâlcea using RAPD markers	……………	41
8.	MARIAN PETRE, ALEXANDRU TEODORESCU, ELISABETA ŢULUCA, CARMEN BEJAN, ALINA ANDRONESCU Biotechnology of Mushroom Pellets Producing by Controlled Submerged Fermentation	……………	50
9.	MONICA HÂRŢA, DORU PAMFIL, MARIN ARDELEAN, CARSTEN PEDERSEN,RODICA POP, MIRELA CORDEA Use genomic fingerprinting techniques for revealing DNA polymorphism in Ginkgo biloba L. a medicinal woody species	……………	56
10.	OANA LIVADARIU, NARCISA BABEANU, OVIDIU POPA, MARIA OPREA MARINA PAMFIL, ADRIAN VAMANU, EMANUEL VAMANU Investigations on testing the treatments with inhibitory effects over phytopathogenic bacteria	……………	62
11.	IULIA LUPAN, SERGIU VĂLIMĂREANU, ANA COSTE, OCTAVIAN POPESCU Molecular cloning of agglutinin gene from Galanthus nivalis for Lettuce transformation	……………	69
12.	CARMEN FLORENTINA POPESCU, EMILIA VIŞOIU, ELENA BUCIUMEANU, ALEXANDRU TEODORESCU, RALUCA NICOLETA GHEORGHE, CONSTANTIN TANASESCU, CRISTINA NICOLETA CIOCIRLAN From Plant Tissue Culture to Modern Biotechnology at the National Research and Development Institute for Biotechnology in Horticulture Stefanesti: Achievements and Prospects	……………	78
13.	S. MOHAN JAIN Mutagenesis in crop improvement under the climate change	……………	88
14.	PETOLESCU CERASELA, BADEA ELENA MARCELA, CIULCA SORIN, LAZAR ALEXANDRU Intra-population Genetic Diversity in Romanian Alfalfa Cultivars as Revealed by SSR Markers	……………	107
15.	GHEORGHE SAVIN Conservation and using of grapevine genetic resources in the Republic of Moldova for pre-breeding stage	……………	113
16.	DORINA PODAR, DALE SANDERS Biofortification of barley grains by cell-type-specific expression of a vacuolar metal transporter	……………	117
17.	ROZALIA MAGDA MOTOC, LIGIA GABRIELA GHEŢEA, CARMEN FLORENTINA POPESCU,NICOLAE BARBACAR, GHEORGHE SAVIN, DANIELA IANCU, CARMEN CONSTANTINESCU, LIGIA ELENA BĂRBĂRII Genetic variability revealed by sequencing analysis at two microsatellitic loci, in some grapevine cultivars from Romania and Republic of Moldavia	……………	122
18.	SORINA POPESCU, OANA IOJA-BOLDURA, ANDREI MĂRUŢESCU, IOAN SABAU, ELENA MARCELA BADEA Quantification of pollen mediated gene flow in maize	……………	125
19.	NABIL MOSA ABUMHADI, ATANAS IVAN ATANASSOV Future challenges of plant biotechnology and genomics	……………	127