[DEVELOPMENT OF MARKER-FREE TRANSFORMANTS BY SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASES].

To produce transgenic plants in current biotechnology selectable marker genes are used that lead to the selectivity.of transformants from non-transformed organisms. However, after the transgenic event has been occurred, the presence of these genes in transformed genome in general is uselless.

[cDNA library construction from panicle meristem of finger millet].

The protocol for production of full-size cDNA using SuperScript Full-Length cDNA Library Construction Kit II (Invitrogen) was tested and high quality cDNA library from meristematic tissue of finger millet panicle (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn) was created. The titer of obtained cDNA library comprised 3.

[Radiation-induced changes in the genome of pine seeds, forming under conditions of chronic irradiation in the Chernobyl exclusion zone].

Comparative study of long-term existing genome damages in the chronically irradiated pine seeds from different parts of Chernobyl zone have been performed by a pulsed field gel electrophoresis and hydroxyapatite chromatography. Some differences were established for DNA degradation kinetic from protoplasts with various accumulated doses of irradiation. Results obtained could testify the existence of long-living changes in the experimental plants genome.