| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Focus Issue on Immunophilins Editorial Introducing Immunophilins. From Organ Transplantation to Plant Biology Patrick Romano, Zengyong He, and Sheng Luan Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1241–1243. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.900108.PMCID: PMC419800 Scientific Correspondence Arabidopsis AtCYP20-2 Is a Light-Regulated Cyclophilin-Type Peptidyl-Prolyl cis-trans Isomerase Associated with the Photosynthetic Membranes Patrick G.N. Romano, Anna Edvardsson, Alexander V. Ruban, Bertil Andersson, Alexander V. Vener, Julie E. Gray, and Peter Horton Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1244–1247. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.041186.PMCID: PMC419801 Research Articles Immunophilins and Parvulins. Superfamily of Peptidyl Prolyl Isomerases in Arabidopsis Zengyong He, Legong Li, and Sheng Luan Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1248–1267. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.031005.PMCID: PMC419802 The Arabidopsis Cyclophilin Gene Family Patrick G.N. Romano, Peter Horton, and Julie E. Gray Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1268–1282. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.022160.PMCID: PMC419803 The Immunophilin-Interacting Protein AtFIP37 from Arabidopsis Is Essential for Plant Development and Is Involved in Trichome Endoreduplication Laurent Vespa, Gilles Vachon, Frédéric Berger, Daniel Perazza, Jean-Denis Faure, and Michel Herzog Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1283–1292. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.028050.PMCID: PMC419804 On the Inside Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1293–1294. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.900107.PMCID: PMC419805 Editor's Choice Series on Agricultural Ethics Who Owns Biodiversity, and How Should the Owners Be Compensated? Paul Gepts Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1295–1307. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038885.PMCID: PMC419806 Scientific Correspondence Abscisic Acid Induces Rapid Subnuclear Reorganization in Guard Cells Carl K.-Y. Ng, Toshinori Kinoshita, Sona Pandey, Ken-ichiro Shimazaki, and Sarah M. Assmann Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1327–1331. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034728.PMCID: PMC419809 Mastoparan Rapidly Activates Plant MAP Kinase Signaling Independent of Heterotrimeric G Proteins Godfrey P. Miles, Marcus A. Samuel, Alan M. Jones, and Brian E. Ellis Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1332–1336. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037275.PMCID: PMC419810 Breakthrough Technologies Potato Virus X-Induced Gene Silencing in Leaves and Tubers of Potato Odile Faivre-Rampant, Eleanor M. Gilroy, Katarina Hrubikova, Ingo Hein, Steve Millam, Gary J. Loake, Paul Birch, Mark Taylor, and Christophe Lacomme Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1308–1316. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037507.PMCID: PMC419807 Anchoring 9,371 Maize Expressed Sequence Tagged Unigenes to the Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Contig Map by Two-Dimensional Overgo Hybridization Jack Gardiner, Steven Schroeder, Mary L. Polacco, Hector Sanchez-Villeda, Zhiwei Fang, Michele Morgante, Tim Landewe, Kevin Fengler, Francisco Useche, Michael Hanafey, Scott Tingey, Hugh Chou, Rod Wing, Carol Soderlund, and Edward H. Coe, Jr. Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1317–1326. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034538.PMCID: PMC419808 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures A Bifunctional 3,5-Epimerase/4-Keto Reductase for Nucleotide-Rhamnose Synthesis in Arabidopsis Gregory Watt, Christine Leoff, April D. Harper, and Maor Bar-Peled Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1337–1346. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037192.PMCID: PMC419811 Repression of a Novel Isoform of Disproportionating Enzyme (stDPE2) in Potato Leads to Inhibition of Starch Degradation in Leaves But Not Tubers Stored at Low Temperature James R. Lloyd, Andreas Blennow, Kim Burhenne, and Jens Kossmann Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1347–1354. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038026.PMCID: PMC419812 A Novel Role of Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Proteins in the Transitory Storage of Chorophyllide Christiane Reinbothe, Hiroyuki Satoh, Jean-Pierre Alcaraz, and Steffen Reinbothe Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1355–1365. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033613.PMCID: PMC419813 Partial Purification, Kinetic Analysis, and Amino Acid Sequence Information of a Flavonol 3-O-Methyltransferase from Serratula tinctoria Tyng-Shyan Huang, Dominique Anzellotti, Fabienne Dedaldechamp, and Ragai K. Ibrahim Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1366–1376. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036442.PMCID: PMC419814 Cloning, Functional Expression, and Characterization of the Raffinose Oligosaccharide Chain Elongation Enzyme, Galactan:Galactan Galactosyltransferase, from Common Bugle Leaves Esther M. Tapernoux-Lüthi, Andreas Böhm, and Felix Keller Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1377–1387. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036210.PMCID: PMC419815 The Crystal Structures of Zea mays and Arabidopsis 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase Iris M. Fritze, Lars Linden, Jörg Freigang, Günter Auerbach, Robert Huber, and Stefan Steinbacher Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1388–1400. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034082.PMCID: PMC419816 Functional Analysis of the Final Steps of the 1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) Pathway to Isoprenoids in Plants Using Virus-Induced Gene Silencing Jonathan E. Page, Gerd Hause, Maja Raschke, Wenyun Gao, Jürgen Schmidt, Meinhart H. Zenk, and Toni M. Kutchan Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1401–1413. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038133.PMCID: PMC419817 Ectopic Expression of Maize Polyamine Oxidase and Pea Copper Amine Oxidase in the Cell Wall of Tobacco Plants Giuseppina Rea, Maria Concetta de Pinto, Raffaela Tavazza, Stefania Biondi, Valentina Gobbi, Paola Ferrante, Laura De Gara, Rodolfo Federico, Riccardo Angelini, and Paraskevi Tavladoraki Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1414–1426. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036764.PMCID: PMC419818 Phosphorylation of the Amino Terminus of Maize Sucrose Synthase in Relation to Membrane Association and Enzyme Activity Shane C. Hardin, Heike Winter, and Steven C. Huber Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1427–1438. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036780.PMCID: PMC419819 Arabidopsis CYP707As Encode (+)-Abscisic Acid 8′-Hydroxylase, a Key Enzyme in the Oxidative Catabolism of Abscisic Acid Shigeki Saito, Nobuhiro Hirai, Chiaki Matsumoto, Hajime Ohigashi, Daisaku Ohta, Kanzo Sakata, and Masaharu Mizutani Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1439–1449. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037614.PMCID: PMC419820 Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis Identification and Characterization of Respirasomes in Potato Mitochondria Holger Eubel, Jesco Heinemeyer, and Hans-Peter Braun Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1450–1459. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038018.PMCID: PMC419821 Relationship between the Heat Tolerance of Photosynthesis and the Thermal Stability of Rubisco Activase in Plants from Contrasting Thermal Environments Michael E. Salvucci and Steven J. Crafts-Brandner Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1460–1470. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038323.PMCID: PMC419822 Phosphatidylglycerol Is Essential for Oligomerization of Photosystem I Reaction Center Ildikó Domonkos, Przemyslaw Malec, Anna Sallai, László Kovács, Kunihiro Itoh, Gaozhong Shen, Bettina Ughy, Balázs Bogos, Isamu Sakurai, Mihály Kis, Kazimierz Strzalka, Hajime Wada, Shigeru Itoh, Tibor Farkas, and Zoltán Gombos Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1471–1478. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037754.PMCID: PMC419823 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Dehydroascorbate Influences the Plant Cell Cycle through a Glutathione-Independent Reduction Mechanism Geert Potters, Nele Horemans, Silvia Bellone, Roland J. Caubergs, Paolo Trost, Yves Guisez, and Han Asard Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1479–1487. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033548.PMCID: PMC419824 TOUSLED Kinase Activity Oscillates during the Cell Cycle and Interacts with Chromatin Regulators Hashimul Ehsan, Jean-Philippe Reichheld, Tim Durfee, and Judith L. Roe Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1488–1499. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038117.PMCID: PMC419825 A Rice WRKY Gene Encodes a Transcriptional Repressor of the Gibberellin Signaling Pathway in Aleurone Cells Zhong-Lin Zhang, Zhen Xie, Xiaolu Zou, Jose Casaretto, Tuan-hua David Ho, and Qingxi J. Shen Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1500–1513. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034967.PMCID: PMC419826 Differential Expression of Vacuolar H+-ATPase Subunit c Genes in Tissues Active in Membrane Trafficking and Their Roles in Plant Growth as Revealed by RNAi Senthilkumar Padmanaban, Xiaoying Lin, Imara Perera, Yukio Kawamura, and Heven Sze Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1514–1526. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034025.PMCID: PMC419827 Phytohormones Participate in an S6 Kinase Signal Transduction Pathway in Arabidopsis Franziska Turck, Frederic Zilbermann, Sara C. Kozma, George Thomas, and Ferenc Nagy Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1527–1535. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.035873.PMCID: PMC419828 Cytoplasmic Alkalization Precedes Reactive Oxygen Species Production during Methyl Jasmonate- and Abscisic Acid-Induced Stomatal Closure Dontamala Suhita, Agepati S. Raghavendra, June M. Kwak, and Alain Vavasseur Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1536–1545. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.032250.PMCID: PMC419829 The CPH1 Gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Encodes Two Forms of Cryptochrome Whose Levels Are Controlled by Light-Induced Proteolysis Nichole A. Reisdorph and Gary D. Small Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1546–1554. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.031930.PMCID: PMC419830 Development and Hormone Action Comprehensive Comparison of Auxin-Regulated and Brassinosteroid-Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis Hideki Goda, Shinichiro Sawa, Tadao Asami, Shozo Fujioka, Yukihisa Shimada, and Shigeo Yoshida Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1555–1573. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034736.PMCID: PMC419831 Regulation of Flower Development in Arabidopsis by SCF Complexes Weimin Ni, Daoxin Xie, Lawrence Hobbie, Baomin Feng, Dazhong Zhao, Joseph Akkara, and Hong Ma Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1574–1585. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.031971.PMCID: PMC419832 Molecular Analyses of the Arabidopsis TUBBY-Like Protein Gene Family Chia-Ping Lai, Chang-Lung Lee, Po-Hsuan Chen, Shu-Hsing Wu, Chien-Chih Yang, and Jei-Fu Shaw Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1586–1597. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037820.PMCID: PMC419833 The Effect of α-Amanitin on the Arabidopsis Seed Proteome Highlights the Distinct Roles of Stored and Neosynthesized mRNAs during Germination Loïc Rajjou, Karine Gallardo, Isabelle Debeaujon, Joël Vandekerckhove, Claudette Job, and Dominique Job Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1598–1613. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036293.PMCID: PMC419834 Transient Exposure to Ethylene Stimulates Cell Division and Alters the Fate and Polarity of Hypocotyl Epidermal Cells Haruko Kazama, Haruka Dan, Hidemasa Imaseki, and Geoffrey O. Wasteneys Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1614–1623. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.031088.PMCID: PMC419835 Brassinosteroids Interact with Auxin to Promote Lateral Root Development in Arabidopsis Fang Bao, Junjiang Shen, Shari R. Brady, Gloria K. Muday, Tadao Asami, and Zhenbiao Yang Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1624–1631. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036897.PMCID: PMC419836 Identification and Characterization of Four Chrysanthemum MADS-Box Genes, Belonging to the APETALA1/FRUITFULL and SEPALLATA3 Subfamilies Anna V. Shchennikova, Olga A. Shulga, Richard Immink, Konstantin G. Skryabin, and Gerco C. Angenent Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1632–1641. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036665.PMCID: PMC419837 An Overview of Gibberellin Metabolism Enzyme Genes and Their Related Mutants in Rice Tomoaki Sakamoto, Koutarou Miura, Hironori Itoh, Tomoko Tatsumi, Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka, Kanako Ishiyama, Masatomo Kobayashi, Ganesh K. Agrawal, Shin Takeda, Kiyomi Abe, Akio Miyao, Hirohiko Hirochika, Hidemi Kitano, Motoyuki Ashikari, and Makoto Matsuoka Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1642–1653. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033696.PMCID: PMC419838 Molecular Characterization of Cytokinin-Responsive Histidine Kinases in Maize. Differential Ligand Preferences and Response to cis-Zeatin Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Mikiko Kojima, Tomoyuki Yamaya, and Hitoshi Sakakibara Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1654–1661. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037176.PMCID: PMC419839 Environmental Stress and Adaptation Intercellular Distribution of Glutathione Synthesis in Maize Leaves and Its Response to Short-Term Chilling Leonardo D. Gómez, Hélène Vanacker, Peter Buchner, Graham Noctor, and Christine H. Foyer Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1662–1671. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033027.PMCID: PMC419840 Mechanism of Gene Expression of Arabidopsis Glutathione S-Transferase, AtGST1, and AtGST11 in Response to Aluminum Stress Bunichi Ezaki, Masakatsu Suzuki, Hirotoshi Motoda, Masako Kawamura, Susumu Nakashima, and Hideaki Matsumoto Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1672–1682. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037135.PMCID: PMC419841 When Defense Pathways Collide. The Response of Arabidopsis to a Combination of Drought and Heat Stress Ludmila Rizhsky, Hongjian Liang, Joel Shuman, Vladimir Shulaev, Sholpan Davletova, and Ron Mittler Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1683–1696. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033431.PMCID: PMC419842 Tissue-Specific Localization of an Abscisic Acid Biosynthetic Enzyme, AAO3, in Arabidopsis Hanae Koiwai, Kentaro Nakaminami, Mitsunori Seo, Wataru Mitsuhashi, Tomonobu Toyomasu, and Tomokazu Koshiba Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1697–1707. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.036970.PMCID: PMC419843 Protein Cryoprotective Activity of a Cytosolic Small Heat Shock Protein That Accumulates Constitutively in Chestnut Stems and Is Up-Regulated by Low and High Temperatures Maria-Angeles Lopez-Matas, Paulina Nuñez, Alvaro Soto, Isabel Allona, Rosa Casado, Carmen Collada, Maria-Angeles Guevara, Cipriano Aragoncillo, and Luis Gomez Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1708–1717. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.035857.PMCID: PMC419844 Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Evolution The GATA Family of Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis and Rice José C. Reyes, M. Isabel Muro-Pastor, and Francisco J. Florencio Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1718–1732. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.037788.PMCID: PMC419845 High-Resolution Physical Mapping in Pennisetum squamulatum Reveals Extensive Chromosomal Heteromorphism of the Genomic Region Associated with Apomixis Yukio Akiyama, Joann A. Conner, Shailendra Goel, Daryl T. Morishige, John E. Mullet, Wayne W. Hanna, and Peggy Ozias-Akins Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1733–1741. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033969.PMCID: PMC419846 Gene and Enhancer Trap Tagging of Vascular-Expressed Genes in Poplar Trees Andrew Groover, Joseph R. Fontana, Gayle Dupper, Caiping Ma, Robert Martienssen, Steven Strauss, and Richard Meilan Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1742–1751. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034330.PMCID: PMC419847 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms Effects of Feeding Spodoptera littoralis on Lima Bean Leaves. I. Membrane Potentials, Intracellular Calcium Variations, Oral Secretions, and Regurgitate Components Massimo Maffei, Simone Bossi, Dieter Spiteller, Axel Mithöfer, and Wilhelm Boland Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1752–1762. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034165.PMCID: PMC419848 Characterization of Three Functional High-Affinity Ammonium Transporters in Lotus japonicus with Differential Transcriptional Regulation and Spatial Expression Enrica D'Apuzzo, Alessandra Rogato, Ulrike Simon-Rosin, Hicham El Alaoui, Ani Barbulova, Marco Betti, Maria Dimou, Panagiotis Katinakis, Antonio Marquez, Anne-Marie Marini, Michael K. Udvardi, and Maurizio Chiurazzi Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1763–1774. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034322.PMCID: PMC419849 Adenylate Gradients and Ar:O2 Effects on Legume Nodules. II. Changes in the Subcellular Adenylate Pools Hui Wei, Craig A. Atkins, and David B. Layzell Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1775–1783. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.038547.PMCID: PMC419850 The Timing of Senescence and Response to Pathogens Is Altered in the Ascorbate-Deficient Arabidopsis Mutant vitamin c-1 Carina Barth, Wolfgang Moeder, Daniel F. Klessig, and Patricia L. Conklin Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1784–1792. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.032185.PMCID: PMC419851 Whole Plant and Ecophysiology Evidence for Symplastic Involvement in the Radial Movement of Calcium in Onion Roots Ewa Cholewa and Carol A. Peterson Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1793–1802. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.035287.PMCID: PMC419852 Ethylene Insensitivity Does Not Increase Leaf Area or Relative Growth Rate in Arabidopsis, Nicotiana tabacum, and Petunia x hybrida Danny Tholen, Laurentius A.C.J. Voesenek, and Hendrik Poorter Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1803–1812. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.034389.PMCID: PMC419903 Heterosis of Biomass Production in Arabidopsis. Establishment during Early Development Rhonda C. Meyer, Ottó Törjék, Martina Becher, and Thomas Altmann Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1813–1823. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.033001.PMCID: PMC419853 Hydraulic Analysis of Water Flow through Leaves of Sugar Maple and Red Oak Lawren Sack, Christopher M. Streeter, and N. Michele Holbrook Plant Physiol. 2004 April; 134(4): 1824–1833. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.031203.PMCID: PMC419854 |