Current questions of gene transfer via protoplast fusion in microorganisms.

Abstract

It has become one of the traditions of international protoplast symposia that the main organizer (“chairman”, “secretary general”) of a previous symposium has the privilege to deliver the first talk at the next one. In this capacity, it is with great pleasure that I should like to greet all the organizers and participants of the Sixth International Protoplast Symposium. Many of you may remember that in Szeged, during the Fifth Symposium, the healthy idea was put forward that the next symposium be held in Switzerland, one of the most stable and flourishing countries of this rather labile world. There were series of discussions at and after the Szeged Symposium, and finally Dr. Ingo Potrykus and his colleagues decided to take the brave step to send out the first circular of the Sixth Symposium.