The International Symposium on Induced Mutations in Plants was held on 12-15 August 2008 in Vienna, Austria organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and FAO through the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. It comprised an opening session, two plenary sessions and ten concurrent sessions, covering topics such as induced mutations in food and agriculture, genetic diversity and crop domestication, abiotic stress tolerance and adaptation to climate change, crop quality and nutrition, seed and vegetatively propagated plants, gene discovery and functional genomics. A 458-page publication entitled "Induced plant mutations in the genomics era", edited by Q.Y. Shu, is now available, with a compilation of peer-reviewed full papers contributed by participants. See http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0956e/i0956e00.htm or contact [email protected] for more information.

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