| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Editorial The Freedom to Innovate: A Privilege or a Right? Rich Jorgensen PMCID: PMC1913731 In This Issue Phloem-Borne FT Signals Flowering in Cucurbits Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC1913738 In Brief A CLASSY RNA Silencing Signaling Mutant in Arabidopsis Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC1913730 Bigfoot Genes and Plant Response to Environmental Change Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC1913734 Research Articles G-Boxes, Bigfoot Genes, and Environmental Response: Characterization of Intragenomic Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Arabidopsis Michael Freeling, Lakshmi Rapaka, Eric Lyons, Brent Pedersen, and Brian C. Thomas PMCID: PMC1913728 The Two AGPase Subunits Evolve at Different Rates in Angiosperms, yet They Are Equally Sensitive to Activity-Altering Amino Acid Changes When Expressed in Bacteria Nikolaos Georgelis, Edward L. Braun, Janine R. Shaw, and L. Curtis Hannah PMCID: PMC1913735 CYP703 Is an Ancient Cytochrome P450 in Land Plants Catalyzing in-Chain Hydroxylation of Lauric Acid to Provide Building Blocks for Sporopollenin Synthesis in Pollen Marc Morant, Kirsten Jørgensen, Hubert Schaller, Franck Pinot, Birger Lindberg Møller, Danièle Werck-Reichhart, and Søren Bak PMCID: PMC1913723 FLOWERING LOCUS T Protein May Act as the Long-Distance Florigenic Signal in the Cucurbits Ming-Kuem Lin, Helene Belanger, Young-Jin Lee, Erika Varkonyi-Gasic, Ken-Ichiro Taoka, Eriko Miura, Beatriz Xoconostle-Cázares, Karla Gendler, Richard A. Jorgensen, Brett Phinney, Tony J. Lough, and William J. Lucas PMCID: PMC1913722 An SNF2 Protein Associated with Nuclear RNA Silencing and the Spread of a Silencing Signal between Cells in Arabidopsis Lisa M. Smith, Olga Pontes, Iain Searle, Nataliya Yelina, Faridoon K. Yousafzai, Alan J. Herr, Craig S. Pikaard, and David C. Baulcombe PMCID: PMC1913737 TIME FOR COFFEE Encodes a Nuclear Regulator in the Arabidopsis thaliana Circadian Clock Zhaojun Ding, Andrew J. Millar, Amanda M. Davis, and Seth J. Davis PMCID: PMC1913727 NUCLEAR PORE ANCHOR, the Arabidopsis Homolog of Tpr/Mlp1/Mlp2/Megator, Is Involved in mRNA Export and SUMO Homeostasis and Affects Diverse Aspects of Plant Development Xianfeng Morgan Xu, Annkatrin Rose, Sivaramakrishnan Muthuswamy, Sun Yong Jeong, Sowmya Venkatakrishnan, Qiao Zhao, and Iris Meier PMCID: PMC1913724 Components of the Arabidopsis mRNA Decapping Complex Are Required for Early Seedling Development David C. Goeres, Jaimie M. Van Norman, Weiping Zhang, Nellie A. Fauver, Mary Lou Spencer, and Leslie E. Sieburth PMCID: PMC1913740 UDP-Glucose 4-Epimerase Isoforms UGE2 and UGE4 Cooperate in Providing UDP-Galactose for Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana Johannes Rösti, Christopher J. Barton, Sandra Albrecht, Paul Dupree, Markus Pauly, Kim Findlay, Keith Roberts, and Georg J. Seifert PMCID: PMC1913733 Structure and Function of a Mitochondrial Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein Are Revealed by Desiccation Dimitri Tolleter, Michel Jaquinod, Cécile Mangavel, Catherine Passirani, Patrick Saulnier, Stephen Manon, Emeline Teyssier, Nicole Payet, Marie-Hélène Avelange-Macherel, and David Macherel PMCID: PMC1913742 The Arabidopsis ATNRT2.7 Nitrate Transporter Controls Nitrate Content in Seeds Franck Chopin, Mathilde Orsel, Marie-France Dorbe, Fabien Chardon, Hoai-Nam Truong, Anthony J. Miller, Anne Krapp, and Françoise Daniel-Vedele PMCID: PMC1913726 Increasing Plasma Membrane Phosphatidylinositol(4,5)Bisphosphate Biosynthesis Increases Phosphoinositide Metabolism in Nicotiana tabacum Yang Ju Im, Imara Y. Perera, Irena Brglez, Amanda J. Davis, Jill Stevenson-Paulik, Brian Q. Phillippy, Eva Johannes, Nina S. Allen, and Wendy F. Boss PMCID: PMC1913725 Arabidopsis Protein Kinase PKS5 Inhibits the Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase by Preventing Interaction with 14-3-3 Protein Anja T. Fuglsang, Yan Guo, Tracey A. Cuin, Quansheng Qiu, Chunpeng Song, Kim A. Kristiansen, Katrine Bych, Alexander Schulz, Sergey Shabala, Karen S. Schumaker, Michael G. Palmgren, and Jian-Kang Zhu PMCID: PMC1913743 Canonical Signal Recognition Particle Components Can Be Bypassed for Posttranslational Protein Targeting in Chloroplasts Tzvetelina Tzvetkova-Chevolleau, Claire Hutin, Laurent D. Noël, Robyn Goforth, Jean-Pierre Carde, Stephano Caffarri, Irmgard Sinning, Matthew Groves, Jean-Marie Teulon, Neil E. Hoffman, Ralph Henry, Michel Havaux, and Laurent Nussaume PMCID: PMC1913721 The Senescence-Induced Staygreen Protein Regulates Chlorophyll Degradation So-Yon Park, Jae-Woong Yu, Jong-Sung Park, Jinjie Li, Soo-Cheul Yoo, Na-Yeoun Lee, Sang-Kyu Lee, Seok-Won Jeong, Hak Soo Seo, Hee-Jong Koh, Jong-Seong Jeon, Youn-Il Park, and Nam-Chon Paek PMCID: PMC1913741 ABA Is an Essential Signal for Plant Resistance to Pathogens Affecting JA Biosynthesis and the Activation of Defenses in Arabidopsis Bruce A.T. Adie, Julián Pérez-Pérez, Manuel M. Pérez-Pérez, Marta Godoy, José-J. Sánchez-Serrano, Eric A. Schmelz, and Roberto Solano PMCID: PMC1913739 Physical Association of the NB-LRR Resistance Protein Rx with a Ran GTPase–Activating Protein Is Required for Extreme Resistance to Potato virus X Wladimir I.L. Tameling and David C. Baulcombe PMCID: PMC1913736 Arabidopsis VIRE2 INTERACTING PROTEIN2 Is Required for Agrobacterium T-DNA Integration in Plants Ajith Anand, Alexander Krichevsky, Sebastian Schornack, Thomas Lahaye, Tzvi Tzfira, Yuhong Tang, Vitaly Citovsky, and Kirankumar S. Mysore PMCID: PMC1913729 Tomato BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 Is Required for Systemin-Induced Root Elongation in Solanum pimpinellifolium but Is Not Essential for Wound Signaling Nicholas Holton, Ana Caño-Delgado, Kate Harrison, Teresa Montoya, Joanne Chory, and Gerard J. Bishop PMCID: PMC1913732 |
