Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology
Symposium organised by the BPTCg & NVPW on 3 October 2003
Van der Valk Hotel, Maastricht


Programme
9:30
 Reception with coffee and tea
10:15
 Opening
10:30

 Marc van Montague (Ghent University, Belgium)
Agrobacterium: thirty years later, still so much to learn
11:10

 Rob Dirks (Rijk Zwaan, the Netherlands)
Reverse Breeding: a good alternative for apomixis?
11:40

 Wim Rook (Royal van Zanten, the Netherlands)
Commercial micropropagation
12:10

 Andreas Mordhorst
Analysis of mutant somatic embryos: zygotic and somatic embryogenesis share the same developmental program
13:40
Lunch
14:00

 Amos Richmond (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
The case of microalgae agriculture
14:30

 Rene Wijffels (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
High-value compounds from sun and seawater
15:00

 Heinz Martin Schumacher (Deutsche Sammlung von Mikro-organismen und Zellkulturen, Germany)
Strategies for the maintenance of undifferentiated plant cell lines as tools for research
15:30

 Henri van Onckelen (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Cytokinins and cell cycle progression
16:00
 Drinks
Acknowledgment

The BPTCg and NVPW would like to thank the following companies for their kind contribution to this symposium:


STBW Royal Van Zanten Greiner Bio-One Uvikon