The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is a free international scientific journal that publishes papers on all areas of biotechnology, including agricultural biotechnology. It is supported, among others, by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) MIRCEN (Microbial Resources Centres) network and has been operational since April 1998. All papers are freely available on the web and UNESCO also disseminates the journal by CD-ROM to a number of partners in developing countries. A special issue (June 2006) of the journal has just been published, including the complete versions of a significant number of papers presented during the VI Symposium of REDBIO Argentina 2005, held on 7-11 June 2005 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. REDBIO is the Technical Co-operation Network on Plant Biotechnology in Latin America and the Caribbean, based at the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. See http://www.ejbiotechnology.info or contact [email protected] for more information.

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