| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. In This Issue Homologous Recombination in Higher Plants: Clues from fasciata1-4, a New Chromatin Formation Mutant of Arabidopsis Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC1626626 In Brief Medicago truncatula CRE1 Cytokinin Receptor Regulates Nodulation and Lateral Root Development PMCID: PMC1626631 Pushing the Envelope: The Role of Outer Envelope Proteins PVD1 and PVD2 in Plastid Division Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC1626618 Historical Perspective Essay A Brief History of Systems Biology: “Every object that biology studies is a system of systems.” Francois Jacob (1974). Anthony Trewavas PMCID: PMC1626627 Research Articles The Chromatin Assembly Factor Subunit FASCIATA1 Is Involved in Homologous Recombination in Plants Angela Kirik, Ales Pecinka, Edelgard Wendeler, and Bernd Reiss PMCID: PMC1626614 Loading of Arabidopsis Centromeric Histone CENH3 Occurs Mainly during G2 and Requires the Presence of the Histone Fold Domain Inna Lermontova, Veit Schubert, Joerg Fuchs, Sabina Klatte, Jiri Macas, and Ingo Schubert PMCID: PMC1626606 INCREASED LEVEL OF POLYPLOIDY1, a Conserved Repressor of CYCLINA2 Transcription, Controls Endoreduplication in Arabidopsis Takeshi Yoshizumi, Yuko Tsumoto, Tomoko Takiguchi, Noriko Nagata, Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto, Mika Kawashima, Takanari Ichikawa, Miki Nakazawa, Naoki Yamamoto, and Minami Matsui PMCID: PMC1626625 A Rice Tc1/Mariner-Like Element Transposes in Yeast Guojun Yang, Clifford F. Weil, and Susan R. Wessler PMCID: PMC1626630 The Proteolytic Function of the Arabidopsis 26S Proteasome Is Required for Specifying Leaf Adaxial Identity Weihua Huang, Limin Pi, Wanqi Liang, Ben Xu, Hua Wang, Run Cai, and Hai Huang PMCID: PMC1626615 Arabidopsis FAMA Controls the Final Proliferation/Differentiation Switch during Stomatal Development Kyoko Ohashi-Ito and Dominique C. Bergmann PMCID: PMC1626605 Arabidopsis FHY3 Specifically Gates Phytochrome Signaling to the Circadian Clock Trudie Allen, Athanasios Koustenis, George Theodorou, David E. Somers, Steve A. Kay, Garry C. Whitelam, and Paul F. Devlin PMCID: PMC1626623 PDV1 and PDV2 Mediate Recruitment of the Dynamin-Related Protein ARC5 to the Plastid Division Site Shin-ya Miyagishima, John E. Froehlich, and Katherine W. Osteryoung PMCID: PMC1626610 Identification and Characterization of Components of a Putative Petunia S-Locus F-Box–Containing E3 Ligase Complex Involved in S-RNase–Based Self-Incompatibility Zhihua Hua and Teh-hui Kao PMCID: PMC1626602 A Posttranslationally Regulated Protease, VheA, Is Involved in the Liberation of Juveniles from Parental Spheroids in Volvox carteri Kazutake Fukada, Tan Inoue, and Hideaki Shiraishi PMCID: PMC1626617 The Proteolytic Processing of Seed Storage Proteins in Arabidopsis Embryo Cells Starts in the Multivesicular Bodies Marisa S. Otegui, Rachel Herder, Jan Schulze, Rudolf Jung, and L. Andrew Staehelin PMCID: PMC1626608 Rice Plastidial N-Glycosylated Nucleotide Pyrophosphatase/Phosphodiesterase Is Transported from the ER-Golgi to the Chloroplast through the Secretory Pathway Yohei Nanjo, Hiromasa Oka, Noriko Ikarashi, Kentaro Kaneko, Aya Kitajima, Toshiaki Mitsui, Francisco José Muñoz, Milagros Rodríguez-López, Edurne Baroja-Fernández, and Javier Pozueta-Romero PMCID: PMC1626603 Arabidopsis thaliana RGXT1 and RGXT2 Encode Golgi-Localized (1,3)-α-d-Xylosyltransferases Involved in the Synthesis of Pectic Rhamnogalacturonan-II Jack Egelund, Bent Larsen Petersen, Mohammed Saddik Motawia, Iben Damager, Ahmed Faik, Carl Erik Olsen, Tadashi Ishii, Henrik Clausen, Peter Ulvskov, and Naomi Geshi PMCID: PMC1626629 Retention of a Bean Phaseolin/Maize γ-Zein Fusion in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Depends on Disulfide Bond Formation Andrea Pompa and Alessandro Vitale PMCID: PMC1626613 Crystal Structure of Vigna radiata Cytokinin-Specific Binding Protein in Complex with Zeatin Oliwia Pasternak, Grzegorz D. Bujacz, Yasuyuki Fujimoto, Yuichi Hashimoto, Filip Jelen, Jacek Otlewski, Michal M. Sikorski, and Mariusz Jaskolski PMCID: PMC1626604 Structural and Functional Insights into the Chloroplast ATP-Dependent Clp Protease in Arabidopsis Lars L.E. Sjögren, Tara M. Stanne, Bo Zheng, Sirkka Sutinen, and Adrian K. Clarke PMCID: PMC1626633 A Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Facilitates the trans-Splicing of the Maize Chloroplast rps12 Pre-mRNA Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Rosalind E. Williams-Carrier, Pascale M. Williams-Voelker, Tiffany S. Kroeger, Athea Vichas, and Alice Barkan PMCID: PMC1626628 BRANCHED-CHAIN AMINOTRANSFERASE4 Is Part of the Chain Elongation Pathway in the Biosynthesis of Methionine-Derived Glucosinolates in Arabidopsis Joachim Schuster, Tanja Knill, Michael Reichelt, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Stefan Binder PMCID: PMC1626624 The Medicago truncatula CRE1 Cytokinin Receptor Regulates Lateral Root Development and Early Symbiotic Interaction with Sinorhizobium meliloti Silvina Gonzalez-Rizzo, Martin Crespi, and Florian Frugier PMCID: PMC1626621 Mutants of Arabidopsis Lacking Starch Branching Enzyme II Substitute Plastidial Starch Synthesis by Cytoplasmic Maltose Accumulation Sylvain Dumez, Fabrice Wattebled, David Dauvillee, David Delvalle, Véronique Planchot, Steven G. Ball, and Christophe D'Hulst PMCID: PMC1626616 Tocopherols Play a Crucial Role in Low-Temperature Adaptation and Phloem Loading in Arabidopsis Hiroshi Maeda, Wan Song, Tammy L. Sage, and Dean DellaPenna PMCID: PMC1626601 Rapid Transcriptome Changes Induced by Cytosolic Ca2+ Transients Reveal ABRE-Related Sequences as Ca2+-Responsive cis Elements in Arabidopsis Boaz Kaplan, Olga Davydov, Heather Knight, Yael Galon, Marc R. Knight, Robert Fluhr, and Hillel Fromm PMCID: PMC1626612 An Arabidopsis Glutathione Peroxidase Functions as Both a Redox Transducer and a Scavenger in Abscisic Acid and Drought Stress Responses Yuchen Miao, Dong Lv, Pengcheng Wang, Xue-Chen Wang, Jia Chen, Chen Miao, and Chun-Peng Song PMCID: PMC1626619 Abiotic Stress Generates ROS That Signal Expression of Anionic Glutamate Dehydrogenases to Form Glutamate for Proline Synthesis in Tobacco and Grapevine Damianos S. Skopelitis, Nikolaos V. Paranychianakis, Konstantinos A. Paschalidis, Eleni D. Pliakonis, Ioannis D. Delis, Dimitris I. Yakoumakis, Antonios Kouvarakis, Anastasia K. Papadakis, Euripides G. Stephanou, and Kalliopi A. Roubelakis-Angelakis PMCID: PMC1626620 NDR1 Interaction with RIN4 Mediates the Differential Activation of Multiple Disease Resistance Pathways in Arabidopsis Brad Day, Douglas Dahlbeck, and Brian J. Staskawicz PMCID: PMC1626609 The Tomato NBARC-LRR Protein Prf Interacts with Pto Kinase in Vivo to Regulate Specific Plant Immunity Tatiana S. Mucyn, Alfonso Clemente, Vasilios M.E. Andriotis, Alexi L. Balmuth, Giles E.D. Oldroyd, Brian J. Staskawicz, and John P. Rathjen PMCID: PMC1626632 A p67Phox-Like Regulator Is Recruited to Control Hyphal Branching in a Fungal–Grass Mutualistic Symbiosis Daigo Takemoto, Aiko Tanaka, and Barry Scott PMCID: PMC1626622 Multiple Upstream Signals Converge on the Adaptor Protein Mst50 in Magnaporthe grisea Gyungsoon Park, Chaoyang Xue, Xinhua Zhao, Yangseon Kim, Marc Orbach, and Jin-Rong Xu PMCID: PMC1626611 NPS6, Encoding a Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Involved in Siderophore-Mediated Iron Metabolism, Is a Conserved Virulence Determinant of Plant Pathogenic Ascomycetes Shinichi Oide, Wolfgang Moeder, Stuart Krasnoff, Donna Gibson, Hubertus Haas, Keiko Yoshioka, and B. Gillian Turgeon PMCID: PMC1626607 |
