| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Focus Issue on Vector Systems for Plant Research and Biotechnology Updates The Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions in Plants by Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Nir Ohad, Keren Shichrur, and Shaul Yalovsky PMCID: PMC2151733 New Gateways to Discovery Michael M. Goodin, Romit Chakrabarty, Rituparna Banerjee, Sharon Yelton, and Seth DeBolt PMCID: PMC2151732 Heterologous Expression of Viral RNA Interference Suppressors: RISC Management Herman B. Scholthof PMCID: PMC2151731 Delivery of Multiple Transgenes to Plant Cells Mery Dafny-Yelin and Tzvi Tzfira PMCID: PMC2151730 Chloroplast Vector Systems for Biotechnology Applications Dheeraj Verma and Henry Daniell PMCID: PMC2151729 Recombinational Cloning with Plant Gateway Vectors Mansour Karimi, Ann Depicker, and Pierre Hilson PMCID: PMC2151728 Current Status of Binary Vectors and Superbinary Vectors Toshiyuki Komori, Teruyuki Imayama, Norio Kato, Yuji Ishida, Jun Ueki, and Toshihiko Komari PMCID: PMC2151727 Editorial Advanced Expression Vector Systems: New Weapons for Plant Research and Biotechnology Tzvi Tzfira, Stanislav V. Kozlovsky, and Vitaly Citovsky PMCID: PMC2151734 Breakthrough Technologies A Ligation-Independent Cloning Tobacco Rattle Virus Vector for High-Throughput Virus-Induced Gene Silencing Identifies Roles for NbMADS4-1 and -2 in Floral Development Yiyu Dong, Tessa M. Burch-Smith, Yule Liu, Padmavathi Mamillapalli, and Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar PMCID: PMC2151726 Generation of Single-Copy T-DNA Transformants in Arabidopsis by the CRE/loxP Recombination-Mediated Resolution System Sylvie De Buck, Ingrid Peck, Chris De Wilde, Gordana Marjanac, Jonah Nolf, Annelies De Paepe, and Ann Depicker PMCID: PMC2151725 Building Blocks for Plant Gene Assembly Mansour Karimi, Annick Bleys, Rudy Vanderhaeghen, and Pierre Hilson PMCID: PMC2151724 A Set of Modular Binary Vectors for Transformation of Cereals Axel Himmelbach, Uwe Zierold, Götz Hensel, Jan Riechen, Dimitar Douchkov, Patrick Schweizer, and Jochen Kumlehn PMCID: PMC2151723 A Guide to Choosing Vectors for Transformation of the Plastid Genome of Higher Plants Kerry Ann Lutz, Arun Kumar Azhagiri, Tarinee Tungsuchat-Huang, and Pal Maliga PMCID: PMC2151722 The pCLEAN Dual Binary Vector System for Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation Vera Thole, Barbara Worland, John W. Snape, and Philippe Vain PMCID: PMC2151721 Marker-Free Transgenic Plants through Genetically Programmed Auto-Excision Dimitri Verweire, Kristof Verleyen, Sylvie De Buck, Martine Claeys, and Geert Angenon PMCID: PMC2151720 TRBO: A High-Efficiency Tobacco Mosaic Virus RNA-Based Overexpression Vector John A. Lindbo PMCID: PMC2151719 Research Articles Reverse Genetics of Floral Scent: Application of Tobacco Rattle Virus-Based Gene Silencing in Petunia Ben Spitzer, Michal Moyal Ben Zvi, Marianna Ovadis, Elena Marhevka, Oren Barkai, Orit Edelbaum, Ira Marton, Tania Masci, Michal Alon, Shai Morin, Ilana Rogachev, Asaph Aharoni, and Alexander Vainstein PMCID: PMC2151718 A Universal Expression/Silencing Vector in Plants Yuval Peretz, Rita Mozes-Koch, Fuad Akad, Edna Tanne, Henryk Czosnek, and Ilan Sela PMCID: PMC2151717 Yeast-Plant Coupled Vector System for Identification of Nuclear Proteins Adi Zaltsman, Bu-Young Yi, Alexander Krichevsky, Yedidya Gafni, and Vitaly Citovsky PMCID: PMC2151716 pSAT RNA Interference Vectors: A Modular Series for Multiple Gene Down-Regulation in Plants Mery Dafny-Yelin, Sang-Min Chung, Ellen L. Frankman, and Tzvi Tzfira PMCID: PMC2151715 Stable Recombinase-Mediated Cassette Exchange in Arabidopsis Using Agrobacterium tumefaciens Jeanine D. Louwerse, Miranda C.M. van Lier, Dirk M. van der Steen, Clementine M.T. de Vlaam, Paul J.J. Hooykaas, and Annette C. Vergunst PMCID: PMC2151714 Novel Plant Transformation Vectors Containing the Superpromoter Lan-Ying Lee, Maria E. Kononov, Burgund Bassuner, Bronwyn R. Frame, Kan Wang, and Stanton B. Gelvin PMCID: PMC2151713 Letter to the Editor Toward Sequencing Cotton (Gossypium) Genomes Z. Jeffrey Chen, Brian E. Scheffler, Elizabeth Dennis, Barbara A. Triplett, Tianzhen Zhang, Wangzhen Guo, Xiaoya Chen, David M. Stelly, Pablo D. Rabinowicz, Christopher D. Town, Tony Arioli, Curt Brubaker, Roy G. Cantrell, Jean-Marc Lacape, Mauricio Ulloa, Peng Chee, Alan R. Gingle, Candace H. Haigler, Richard Percy, Sukumar Saha, Thea Wilkins, Robert J. Wright, Allen Van Deynze, Yuxian Zhu, Shuxun Yu, Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, Ishwarappa Katageri, P. Ananda Kumar, Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Yusuf Zafar, John Z. Yu, Russell J. Kohel, Jonathan F. Wendel, and Andrew H. Paterson PMCID: PMC2151711 On the Inside On the Inside Peter V. Minorsky PMCID: PMC2151712 Genome Analysis Identification and Characterization of Lineage-Specific Genes within the Poaceae Matthew A. Campbell, Wei Zhu, Ning Jiang, Haining Lin, Shu Ouyang, Kevin L. Childs, Brian J. Haas, John P. Hamilton, and C. Robin Buell PMCID: PMC2151710 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures A Trafficking Pathway for Anthocyanins Overlaps with the Endoplasmic Reticulum-to-Vacuole Protein-Sorting Route in Arabidopsis and Contributes to the Formation of Vacuolar Inclusions Frantisek Poustka, Niloufer G. Irani, Antje Feller, Yuhua Lu, Lucille Pourcel, Kenneth Frame, and Erich Grotewold PMCID: PMC2151709 In Situ Molecular Identification of the Plastid ω3 Fatty Acid Desaturase FAD7 from Soybean: Evidence of Thylakoid Membrane Localization Vanesa Andreu, Raquel Collados, Pilar S. Testillano, María del Carmen Risueño, Rafael Picorel, and Miguel Alfonso PMCID: PMC2151708 The Arabidopsis DESPERADO/AtWBC11 Transporter Is Required for Cutin and Wax Secretion David Panikashvili, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Tali Mandel, Tamar Yifhar, Rochus B. Franke, René Höfer, Lukas Schreiber, Joanne Chory, and Asaph Aharoni PMCID: PMC2151707 Oxo-Phytodienoic Acid-Containing Galactolipids in Arabidopsis: Jasmonate Signaling Dependence Olga Kourtchenko, Mats X. Andersson, Mats Hamberg, Åsa Brunnström, Cornelia Göbel, Kerry L. McPhail, William H. Gerwick, Ivo Feussner, and Mats Ellerström PMCID: PMC2151682 Arabidopsis Seedlings Deficient in a Plastidic Pyruvate Kinase Are Unable to Utilize Seed Storage Compounds for Germination and Establishment Carl Andre and Christoph Benning PMCID: PMC2151681 Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis Digalactosyldiacylglycerol Is Required for Stabilization of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II Isamu Sakurai, Naoki Mizusawa, Hajime Wada, and Naoki Sato PMCID: PMC2151706 Role of the PsbI Protein in Photosystem II Assembly and Repair in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Marika Dobáková, Martin Tichý, and Josef Komenda PMCID: PMC2151680 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Fluorescent Reporter Proteins for the Tonoplast and the Vacuolar Lumen Identify a Single Vacuolar Compartment in Arabidopsis Cells Paul R. Hunter, Christian P. Craddock, Sara Di Benedetto, Lynne M. Roberts, and Lorenzo Frigerio PMCID: PMC2151705 Newly Formed Vacuoles in Root Meristems of Barley and Pea Seedlings Have Characteristics of Both Protein Storage and Lytic Vacuoles Andrea Olbrich, Stefan Hillmer, Giselbert Hinz, Peter Oliviusson, and David G. Robinson PMCID: PMC2151704 Arabidopsis INOSITOL TRANSPORTER2 Mediates H+ Symport of Different Inositol Epimers and Derivatives across the Plasma Membrane Sabine Schneider, Alexander Schneidereit, Patrick Udvardi, Ulrich Hammes, Monika Gramann, Petra Dietrich, and Norbert Sauer PMCID: PMC2151703 Silencing of the Mitochondrial Ascorbate Synthesizing Enzyme l-Galactono-1,4-Lactone Dehydrogenase Affects Plant and Fruit Development in Tomato Moftah Alhagdow, Fabien Mounet, Louise Gilbert, Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Virginie Garcia, Daniel Just, Johann Petit, Bertrand Beauvoit, Alisdair R. Fernie, Christophe Rothan, and Pierre Baldet PMCID: PMC2151702 A Role for F-Actin in Hexokinase-Mediated Glucose Signaling Rajagopal Balasubramanian, Abhijit Karve, Muthugapatti Kandasamy, Richard B. Meagher, and Brandon d. Moore PMCID: PMC2151701 The 14-3-3 Proteins μ and υ Influence Transition to Flowering and Early Phytochrome Response John D. Mayfield, Kevin M. Folta, Anna-Lisa Paul, and Robert J. Ferl PMCID: PMC2151679 Development and Hormone Action A BELL1-Like Gene of Potato Is Light Activated and Wound Inducible Mithu Chatterjee, Anjan K. Banerjee, and David J. Hannapel PMCID: PMC2151700 Maize Brittle stalk2 Encodes a COBRA-Like Protein Expressed in Early Organ Development But Required for Tissue Flexibility at Maturity Anoop Sindhu, Tiffany Langewisch, Anna Olek, Dilbag S. Multani, Maureen C. McCann, Wilfred Vermerris, Nicholas C. Carpita, and Gurmukh Johal PMCID: PMC2151699 Phosphate Starvation Root Architecture and Anthocyanin Accumulation Responses Are Modulated by the Gibberellin-DELLA Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis Caifu Jiang, Xiuhua Gao, Lili Liao, Nicholas P. Harberd, and Xiangdong Fu PMCID: PMC2151698 The F-Box Protein MAX2 Functions as a Positive Regulator of Photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis Hui Shen, Phi Luong, and Enamul Huq PMCID: PMC2151697 OsMADS51 Is a Short-Day Flowering Promoter That Functions Upstream of Ehd1, OsMADS14, and Hd3a Song Lim Kim, Shinyoung Lee, Hyo Jung Kim, Hong Gil Nam, and Gynheung An PMCID: PMC2151696 Conserved C-Terminal Motifs of the Arabidopsis Proteins APETALA3 and PISTILLATA Are Dispensable for Floral Organ Identity Function Eileen Piwarzyk, Yingzhen Yang, and Thomas Jack PMCID: PMC2151695 Cytokinin Receptors Are Involved in Alkamide Regulation of Root and Shoot Development in Arabidopsis José López-Bucio, Mayra Millán-Godínez, Alfonso Méndez-Bravo, Alina Morquecho-Contreras, Enrique Ramírez-Chávez, Jorge Molina-Torres, Anahí Pérez-Torres, Masayuki Higuchi, Tatsuo Kakimoto, and Luis Herrera-Estrella PMCID: PMC2151678 Environmental Stress and Adaptation to Stress Zeaxanthin Has Enhanced Antioxidant Capacity with Respect to All Other Xanthophylls in Arabidopsis Leaves and Functions Independent of Binding to PSII Antennae Michel Havaux, Luca Dall'Osto, and Roberto Bassi PMCID: PMC2151694 Differential Expression of the TFIIIA Regulatory Pathway in Response to Salt Stress between Medicago truncatula Genotypes Laura de Lorenzo, Francisco Merchan, Sandrine Blanchet, Manuel Megías, Florian Frugier, Martin Crespi, and Carolina Sousa PMCID: PMC2151693 Cell Wall Proteome in the Maize Primary Root Elongation Zone. II. Region-Specific Changes in Water Soluble and Lightly Ionically Bound Proteins under Water Deficit Jinming Zhu, Sophie Alvarez, Ellen L. Marsh, Mary E. LeNoble, In-Jeong Cho, Mayandi Sivaguru, Sixue Chen, Henry T. Nguyen, Yajun Wu, Daniel P. Schachtman, and Robert E. Sharp PMCID: PMC2151692 Root Plasma Membrane Transporters Controlling K+/Na+ Homeostasis in Salt-Stressed Barley Zhonghua Chen, Igor I. Pottosin, Tracey A. Cuin, Anja T. Fuglsang, Mark Tester, Deepa Jha, Isaac Zepeda-Jazo, Meixue Zhou, Michael G. Palmgren, Ian A. Newman, and Sergey Shabala PMCID: PMC2151677 Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Evolution Genetic Interactions between DNA Demethylation and Methylation in Arabidopsis Jon Penterman, Rie Uzawa, and Robert L. Fischer PMCID: PMC2151691 Genomic Organization and Evolutionary Conservation of Plant D-Type Cyclins Margit Menges, Giulio Pavesi, Piero Morandini, Laszlo Bögre, and James A.H. Murray PMCID: PMC2151690 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms Alternative Splicing and mRNA Levels of the Disease Resistance Gene RPS4 Are Induced during Defense Responses Xue-Cheng Zhang and Walter Gassmann PMCID: PMC2151689 Induction of a Small Heat Shock Protein and Its Functional Roles in Nicotiana Plants in the Defense Response against Ralstonia solanacearum Milimo Maimbo, Kouhei Ohnishi, Yasufumi Hikichi, Hirofumi Yoshioka, and Akinori Kiba PMCID: PMC2151688 Antisense Repression of the Medicago truncatula Nodule-Enhanced Sucrose Synthase Leads to a Handicapped Nitrogen Fixation Mirrored by Specific Alterations in the Symbiotic Transcriptome and Metabolome Markus C. Baier, Aiko Barsch, Helge Küster, and Natalija Hohnjec PMCID: PMC2151687 Fungal Symbiosis in Rice Requires an Ortholog of a Legume Common Symbiosis Gene Encoding a Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Caiyan Chen, Muqiang Gao, Jinyuan Liu, and Hongyan Zhu PMCID: PMC2151686 Systems Biology, Molecular Biology, and Gene Regulation Two DEAD-Box Proteins May Be Part of RNA-Dependent High-Molecular-Mass Protein Complexes in Arabidopsis Mitochondria Annemarie Matthes, Stephanie Schmidt-Gattung, Daniela Köhler, Joachim Forner, Steffen Wildum, Monika Raabe, Henning Urlaub, and Stefan Binder PMCID: PMC2151684 Mutation in Nicotianamine Aminotransferase Stimulated the Fe(II) Acquisition System and Led to Iron Accumulation in Rice Longjun Cheng, Fang Wang, Huixia Shou, Fangliang Huang, Luqing Zheng, Fei He, Jinhui Li, Fang-Jie Zhao, Daisei Ueno, Jian Feng Ma, and Ping Wu PMCID: PMC2151683 The Isoenzyme 7 of Tobacco NAD(H)-Dependent Glutamate Dehydrogenase Exhibits High Deaminating and Low Aminating Activities in Vivo Damianos S. Skopelitis, Nikolaos V. Paranychianakis, Antonios Kouvarakis, Apostolis Spyros, Euripides G. Stephanou, and Kalliopi A. Roubelakis-Angelakis PMCID: PMC2151676 Nitrite Acts as a Transcriptome Signal at Micromolar Concentrations in Arabidopsis Roots Rongchen Wang, Xiujuan Xing, and Nigel Crawford PMCID: PMC2151675 Whole Plant and Ecophysiology Ethylene and Not Embolism Is Required for Wound-Induced Tylose Development in Stems of Grapevines Qiang Sun, Thomas L. Rost, Michael S. Reid, and Mark A. Matthews PMCID: PMC2151685 |
