| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. In This Issue Vitamin E–Defective Mutants of Arabidopsis Tell Tales of Convergent Evolution Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC540268 Insight In Search of the Molecular Basis of Heterosis James A. Birchler, Donald L. Auger, and Nicole C. Riddle PMCID: PMC540269 Research Articles The Arabidopsis LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES–Domain Gene ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 Functions in the Repression of KNOX Gene Expression and in Adaxial-Abaxial Patterning Wan-ching Lin, Bin Shuai, and Patricia S. Springer PMCID: PMC197291 The Transport of Prolamine RNAs to Prolamine Protein Bodies in Living Rice Endosperm Cells Shigeki Hamada, Keiki Ishiyama, Sang-Bong Choi, Changlin Wang, Salvinder Singh, Naoko Kawai, Vincent R. Franceschi, and Thomas W. Okita PMCID: PMC197292 Dual Regulated RNA Transport Pathways to the Cortical Region in Developing Rice Endosperm Shigeki Hamada, Keiki Ishiyama, Chotipa Sakulsingharoj, Sang-Bong Choi, Yujia Wu, Changlin Wang, Salvinder Singh, Naoko Kawai, Joachim Messing, and Thomas W. Okita PMCID: PMC197293 The STT3a Subunit Isoform of the Arabidopsis Oligosaccharyltransferase Controls Adaptive Responses to Salt/Osmotic Stress Hisashi Koiwa, Fang Li, Michael G. McCully, Imelda Mendoza, Nozomu Koizumi, Yuzuki Manabe, Yuko Nakagawa, Jianhua Zhu, Ana Rus, José M. Pardo, Ray A. Bressan, and Paul M. Hasegawa PMCID: PMC197294 The Oleate-Stimulated Phospholipase D, PLDδ, and Phosphatidic Acid Decrease H2O2-Induced Cell Death in Arabidopsis Wenhua Zhang, Cunxi Wang, Chunbo Qin, Tara Wood, Gudrun Olafsdottir, Ruth Welti, and Xuemin Wang PMCID: PMC197295 INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSCISSION Controls Floral Organ Abscission in Arabidopsis and Identifies a Novel Family of Putative Ligands in Plants Melinka A. Butenko, Sara E. Patterson, Paul E. Grini, Grethe-Elisabeth Stenvik, Silja S. Amundsen, Abul Mandal, and Reidunn B. Aalen PMCID: PMC197296 A Nuclear Protease Required for Flowering-Time Regulation in Arabidopsis Reduces the Abundance of SMALL UBIQUITIN-RELATED MODIFIER Conjugates Giovanni Murtas, Paul H. Reeves, Yong-Fu Fu, Ian Bancroft, Caroline Dean, and George Coupland PMCID: PMC197297 Rapid Induction of Distinct Stress Responses after the Release of Singlet Oxygen in Arabidopsis Roel G. L. op den Camp, Dominika Przybyla, Christian Ochsenbein, Christophe Laloi, Chanhong Kim, Antoine Danon, Daniela Wagner, Éva Hideg, Cornelia Göbel, Ivo Feussner, Mena Nater, and Klaus Apel PMCID: PMC197298 RPS4-Mediated Disease Resistance Requires the Combined Presence of RPS4 Transcripts with Full-Length and Truncated Open Reading Frames Xue-Cheng Zhang and Walter Gassmann PMCID: PMC197299 Highly Divergent Methyltransferases Catalyze a Conserved Reaction in Tocopherol and Plastoquinone Synthesis in Cyanobacteria and Photosynthetic Eukaryotes Zigang Cheng, Scott Sattler, Hiroshi Maeda, Yumiko Sakuragi, Donald A. Bryant, and Dean DellaPenna PMCID: PMC197300 The Arabidopsis Dynamin-Like Proteins ADL1C and ADL1E Play a Critical Role in Mitochondrial Morphogenesis Jing Bo Jin, Hyeunjong Bae, Soo Jin Kim, Yin Hua Jin, Chang-Hyo Goh, Dae Heon Kim, Yong Jik Lee, Yu Chung Tse, Liwen Jiang, and Inhwan Hwang PMCID: PMC197301 The Arabidopsis Anaphase-Promoting Complex or Cyclosome: Molecular and Genetic Characterization of the APC2 Subunit Arnaud Capron, Olivier Serralbo, Katalin Fülöp, Florian Frugier, Yves Parmentier, Aiwu Dong, Alain Lecureuil, Philippe Guerche, Eva Kondorosi, Ben Scheres, and Pascal Genschik PMCID: PMC197302 Arabidopsis sfd Mutants Affect Plastidic Lipid Composition and Suppress Dwarfing, Cell Death, and the Enhanced Disease Resistance Phenotypes Resulting from the Deficiency of a Fatty Acid Desaturase Ashis Nandi, Kartikeya Krothapalli, Christen M. Buseman, Maoyin Li, Ruth Welti, Alexander Enyedi, and Jyoti Shah PMCID: PMC197303 Functional Characterization of Phytochrome Interacting Factor 3 in Phytochrome-Mediated Light Signal Transduction Jonghyun Kim, Hankuil Yi, Goh Choi, Byongchul Shin, Pill-Soon Song, and Giltsu Choi PMCID: PMC197304 ACD6, a Novel Ankyrin Protein, Is a Regulator and an Effector of Salicylic Acid Signaling in the Arabidopsis Defense Response Hua Lu, Debra N. Rate, Jong Tae Song, and Jean T. Greenberg PMCID: PMC197305 Blue Light–Dependent in Vivo and in Vitro Phosphorylation of Arabidopsis Cryptochrome 1 Dror Shalitin, Xuhong Yu, Maskit Maymon, Todd Mockler, and Chentao Lin PMCID: PMC197306 Deletion Derivatives of the MuDR Regulatory Transposon of Maize Encode Antisense Transcripts but Are Not Dominant-Negative Regulators of Mutator Activities Soo-Hwan Kim and Virginia Walbot PMCID: PMC197307 Lesions in Phycoerythrin Chromophore Biosynthesis in Fremyella diplosiphon Reveal Coordinated Light Regulation of Apoprotein and Pigment Biosynthetic Enzyme Gene Expression Richard M. Alvey, Jonathan A. Karty, Elicia Roos, James P. Reilly, and David M. Kehoe PMCID: PMC197308 A Phaseolin Domain Involved Directly in Trimer Assembly Is a Determinant for Binding by the Chaperone BiP Ombretta Foresti, Lorenzo Frigerio, Heidi Holkeri, Maddalena de Virgilio, Stefano Vavassori, and Alessandro Vitale PMCID: PMC197309 The Novel MYB Protein EARLY-PHYTOCHROME-RESPONSIVE1 Is a Component of a Slave Circadian Oscillator in Arabidopsis Norihito Kuno, Simon Geir Møller, Tomoko Shinomura, XiangMing Xu, Nam-Hai Chua, and Masaki Furuya PMCID: PMC197310 |
