ON THE INSIDE

Peter V. Minorsky

On the Inside

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Yukiko Sasaki

A Long and Steep Ladder to the Top.

Arthur W. Galston

An Accidental Plant Biologist.

NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES

Peter V. Minorsky

News from the Archives

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

Carlos Garcia-Mata and Lorenzo Lamattina

Nitric Oxide and Abscisic Acid Cross Talk in Guard Cells.

UPDATE ON PURINE BIOSYNTHESIS

Penelope M.C. Smith and Craig A. Atkins

Purine Biosynthesis. Big in Cell Division, Even Bigger in Nitrogen Assimilation.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES

James C. Abbott, Abdellah Barakate, Gaelle Pincon, Michel Legrand, Catherine Lapierre, Isabelle Mila, Wolfgang Schuch, and Claire Halpin

Simultaneous Suppression of Multiple Genes by Single Transgenes. Down-Regulation of Three Unrelated Lignin Biosynthetic Genes in Tobacco.

Dorte Klaus, Heiko Hartel, Lynda M. Fitzpatrick, John E. Froehlich, Jamie Hubert, Christoph Benning, and Peter Dormann

Digalactosyldiacylglycerol Synthesis in Chloroplasts of the Arabidopsis dgd1 Mutant.

Samuel C. Zeeman, Steven M. Smith, and Alison M. Smith

The Priming of Amylose Synthesis in Arabidopsis Leaves.

Sunil Shekar, Ajay W. Tumaney, T.J.V. Sreenivasa Rao, and Ram Rajasekharan

Isolation of Lysophosphatidic Acid Phosphatase from Developing Peanut Cotyledons.

Richard Shingles, Marisa North, and Richard E. McCarty

Ferrous Ion Transport across Chloroplast Inner Envelope Membranes.

Barbara A. Moffatt, Yvonne Y. Stevens, Michael S. Allen, Jamie D. Snider, Luiz A. Pereira, Margarita I. Todorova, Peter S. Summers, Elizabeth A. Weretilnyk, Luke Martin-McCaffrey, and Conrad Wagner

Adenosine Kinase Deficiency Is Associated with Developmental Abnormalities and Reduced Transmethylation.

Linda M. Tabe and Michel Droux

Limits to Sulfur Accumulation in Transgenic Lupin Seeds Expressing a Foreign Sulfur-Rich Protein.

Chunbo Qin and Xuemin Wang

The Arabidopsis Phospholipase D Family. Characterization of a Calcium-Independent and Phosphatidylcholine-Selective PLD{zeta}1 with Distinct Regulatory Domains.

Jose L. Soulages, Kangmin Kim, Christina Walters, and John C. Cushman

Temperature-Induced Extended Helix/Random Coil Transitions in a Group 1 Late Embryogenesis-Abundant Protein from Soybean.

BIOENERGETICS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Takenobu Yamasaki, Tomokazu Yamakawa, Yoshihiro Yamane, Hiroyuki Koike, Kazuhiko Satoh, and Sakae Katoh

Temperature Acclimation of Photosynthesis and Related Changes in Photosystem II Electron Transport in Winter Wheat.

CELL BIOLOGY AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

Sheen X. Lu and Estelle M. Hrabak

An Arabidopsis Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase Is Associated with the Endoplasmic Reticulum.

Jaideep Mathur, Neeta Mathur, and Martin Hulskamp

Simultaneous Visualization of Peroxisomes and Cytoskeletal Elements Reveals Actin and Not Microtubule-Based Peroxisome Motility in Plants.

Yong-Chun Zhou, Monika Dieterle, Claudia Buche, and Thomas Kretsch

The Negatively Acting Factors EID1 and SPA1 Have Distinct Functions in Phytochrome A-Specific Light Signaling.

Xiaojie Xu, Charles R. Dietrich, Rene Lessire, Basil J. Nikolau, and Patrick S. Schnable

The Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Maize GL8 Protein Is a Component of the Acyl-Coenzyme A Elongase Involved in the Production of Cuticular Waxes.

Shunichi Kosugi and Yuko Ohashi

Interaction of the Arabidopsis E2F and DP Proteins Confers Their Concomitant Nuclear Translocation and Transactivation.

DEVELOPMENT AND HORMONE ACTION

Angus S. Murphy, Karen R. Hoogner, Wendy Ann Peer, and Lincoln Taiz

Identification, Purification, and Molecular Cloning of N-1-Naphthylphthalmic Acid-Binding Plasma Membrane-Associated Aminopeptidases from Arabidopsis.

Marcel Bucher, Silvia Brunner, Philip Zimmermann, Gerardo I. Zardi, Nikolaus Amrhein, Lothar Willmitzer, and Jorg W. Riesmeier

The Expression of an Extensin-Like Protein Correlates with Cellular Tip Growth in Tomato.

Yuehui He, Hirotada Fukushige, David F. Hildebrand, and Susheng Gan

Evidence Supporting a Role of Jasmonic Acid in Arabidopsis Leaf Senescence.

Catherine A. Whitelaw, Nicholas N. Lyssenko, Liwei Chen, Dingbo Zhou, Autar K. Mattoo, and Mark L. Tucker

Delayed Abscission and Shorter Internodes Correlate with a Reduction in the Ethylene Receptor LeETR1 Transcript in Transgenic Tomato.

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND ADAPTATION

Md. Joinal Abedin, Jorg Feldmann, and Andy A. Meharg

Uptake Kinetics of Arsenic Species in Rice Plants.

Sergei Storozhenko, Enric Belles-Boix, Elena Babiychuk, Didier Herouart, Mark W. Davey, Luit Slooten, Marc Van Montagu, Dirk Inze, and Sergei Kushnir

{gamma}-Glutamyl Transpeptidase in Transgenic Tobacco Plants. Cellular Localization, Processing, and Biochemical Properties.

Gilles Basset, Philippe Raymond, Lada Malek, and Renaud Brouquisse

Changes in the Expression and the Enzymic Properties of the 20S Proteasome in Sugar-Starved Maize Roots. Evidence for an in Vivo Oxidation of the Proteasome.

Mohammed Kamaluddin and Janusz J. Zwiazek

Ethylene Enhances Water Transport in Hypoxic Aspen.

Patricia Muller-Moule, Patricia L. Conklin, and Krishna K. Niyogi

Ascorbate Deficiency Can Limit Violaxanthin De-Epoxidase Activity in Vivo.

GENETICS, GENOMICS, AND MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Devinder Sandhu and Kulvinder S. Gill

Gene-Containing Regions of Wheat and the Other Grass Genomes.

Paolo Piazza, Antonia Procissi, Gareth I. Jenkins, and Chiara Tonelli

Members of the c1/pl1 Regulatory Gene Family Mediate the Response of Maize Aleurone and Mesocotyl to Different Light Qualities and Cytokinins.

Yi Li, Catherine P. Darley, Veronica Ongaro, Andrew Fleming, Ori Schipper, Sandra L. Baldauf, and Simon J. McQueen-Mason

Plant Expansins Are a Complex Multigene Family with an Ancient Evolutionary Origin.

Elizabeth Cohen McKinney, Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy, and Richard B. Meagher

Arabidopsis Contains Ancient Classes of Differentially Expressed Actin-Related Protein Genes.

John Fernandes, Volker Brendel, Xiaowu Gai, Shailesh Lal, Vicki L. Chandler, Rangasamy P. Elumalai, David W. Galbraith, Elizabeth A. Pierson, and Virginia Walbot

Comparison of RNA Expression Profiles Based on Maize Expressed Sequence Tag Frequency Analysis and Micro-Array Hybridization.

PLANTS INTERACTING WITH OTHER ORGANISMS

Giuseppina Rea, Ouissal Metoui, Alessandro Infantino, Rodolfo Federico, and Riccardo Angelini

Copper Amine Oxidase Expression in Defense Responses to Wounding and Ascochyta rabiei Invasion.

Annegret Kohler, Sandra Schwindling, and Uwe Conrath

Benzothiadiazole-Induced Priming for Potentiated Responses to Pathogen Infection, Wounding, and Infiltration of Water into Leaves Requires the NPR1/NIM1 Gene in Arabidopsis.

Marta Berrocal-Lobo, Ana Segura, Manuel Moreno, Gemma Lopez, Francisco Garcia-Olmedo, and Antonio Molina

Snakin-2, an Antimicrobial Peptide from Potato Whose Gene Is Locally Induced by Wounding and Responds to Pathogen Infection.

WHOLE PLANT AND ECOPHYSIOLOGY

Claus-Peter Witte, Sarah A. Tiller, Mark A. Taylor, and Howard V. Davies

Leaf Urea Metabolism in Potato. Urease Activity Profile and Patterns of Recovery and Distribution of 15N after Foliar Urea Application in Wild-Type and Urease-Antisense Transgenics.