Current Advances in Fern Research

Part I - The fern's gametophyte: born to reproducing.- Azolla - a model system for symbiotic nitrogen fixation and evolutionary developmental biology.- Meristems of seedless vascular plants-the state-of art.- Biotechnology in clone gametophytes: future perspectives of homosporous ferns.- Morphogenic events in ferns: single and multicellular explants in vitro.- Experimental and practical applications of fern somatic embryogenesis.- Biotechnology and apogamy in Dryopteris affinis ssp. affinis: the influence of tissue homogenization, auxins, cytokinins, gibberellic acid and polyamines.- Scope of ferns in Horticulturae and Economic development.- Part II.- Evolution and Classification of Ferns and Lycophytes.- Exploring the role of auxin in the evolution of tracheophyte body plans.- Fern conservation: Spore, gametophyte and sporophyte ex situ storage, in vitro culture, and cryopreservation.- Azolla and Bougainville's voyage around the world.- Part III.- The power of gametophyte transformation.- Generation of transgenic Ceratopteris richardii spores to analyze Ca2+ dynamics during gravity-directed polarization.- Secondary metabolites of ferns.- Current trends in ferns/pteridophytes extracts: from plant to nanoparticles.- Part IV.- Novel gene of hyperaccumulator ferns in arsenic tolerance, uptake and metabolism: implications for crop improvement.- Fern phenology.- Desiccation tolerance in ferns: from the unicellular spore to the multi-tissular sporophyte.- New insights on atmospheric fern spore dynamics.- Ecological significance of brassinosteroids in temperate forest ferns.- Ecomorphology of stomata in temperate ferns under contrasting environments.- Recent advances in the use of mitochondrial activity of ferns spores for the evaluation of acute toxicity.- Update on the assessment of chronic phytotoxicity using fern spore biomarkers.- Role of ferns in environmental clean-up.

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biotechnology;ecophysiology;secondary metabolites;evolution;stress tolerance