| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Opinion Sequencing Maize: Just Sample the Salsa or Go for the Whole Enchilada? Richard A. Jorgensen PMCID: PMC526044 In This Issue Journey to the Center of the Genome: Complete Sequence of the Rice Chromosome 8 Centromere Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC526045 Inside the Matrix: Crystal Structure of a Xyloglucan Endotransglycosylase Nancy A. Eckardt PMCID: PMC526046 Historical Perspective Essay Plant Telomere Biology Thomas D. McKnight and Dorothy E. Shippen PMCID: PMC526047 Letter to the Editor The Use of Entropy to Analyze Phyllotactic Mutants: A Theoretical Analysis Denis Barabé and Bernard Jeune PMCID: PMC526048 Research Articles Patterning of Virus-Infected Glycine max Seed Coat Is Associated with Suppression of Endogenous Silencing of Chalcone Synthase Genes Mineo Senda, Chikara Masuta, Shizen Ohnishi, Kazunori Goto, Atsushi Kasai, Teruo Sano, Jin-Sung Hong, and Stuart MacFarlane PMCID: PMC412858 Tissue-Specific Gene Silencing Mediated by a Naturally Occurring Chalcone Synthase Gene Cluster in Glycine max Jigyasa H. Tuteja, Steven J. Clough, Wan-Ching Chan, and Lila O. Vodkin PMCID: PMC412859 Electron Tomographic Analysis of Somatic Cell Plate Formation in Meristematic Cells of Arabidopsis Preserved by High-Pressure Freezing José M. Seguí-Simarro, Jotham R. Austin, II, Erin A. White, and L. Andrew Staehelin PMCID: PMC412860 Purification and Characterization of Serine Proteases That Exhibit Caspase-Like Activity and Are Associated with Programmed Cell Death in Avena sativa Warren C. Coffeen and Thomas J. Wolpert PMCID: PMC412861 Crystal Structures of a Poplar Xyloglucan Endotransglycosylase Reveal Details of Transglycosylation Acceptor Binding Patrik Johansson, Harry Brumer, III, Martin J. Baumann, Åsa M. Kallas, Hongbin Henriksson, Stuart E. Denman, Tuula T. Teeri, and T. Alwyn Jones PMCID: PMC412862 RPT2 Is a Signal Transducer Involved in Phototropic Response and Stomatal Opening by Association with Phototropin 1 in Arabidopsis thaliana Sayaka Inada, Maki Ohgishi, Tomoko Mayama, Kiyotaka Okada, and Tatsuya Sakai PMCID: PMC412863 Silencing of the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase MPK6 Compromises Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis Frank L.H. Menke, Johan A. van Pelt, Corné M.J. Pieterse, and Daniel F. Klessig PMCID: PMC412864 Arabidopsis Peptide Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase2 Prevents Cellular Oxidative Damage in Long Nights Ulrike Bechtold, Denis J. Murphy, and Philip M. Mullineaux PMCID: PMC412865 The Petunia Ortholog of Arabidopsis SUPERMAN Plays a Distinct Role in Floral Organ Morphogenesis Hitoshi Nakagawa, Silvia Ferrario, Gerco C. Angenent, Akira Kobayashi, and Hiroshi Takatsuji PMCID: PMC412866 A Nonsymbiotic Root Hair Tip Growth Phenotype in NORK-Mutated Legumes: Implications for Nodulation Factor–Induced Signaling and Formation of a Multifaceted Root Hair Pocket for Bacteria John J. Esseling, Franck G.P. Lhuissier, and Anne Mie C. Emons PMCID: PMC412867 B1-Type Cyclin-Dependent Kinases Are Essential for the Formation of Stomatal Complexes in Arabidopsis thaliana Véronique Boudolf, Rosa Barrôco, Janice de Almeida Engler, Aurine Verkest, Tom Beeckman, Mirande Naudts, Dirk Inzé, and Lieven De Veylder PMCID: PMC412868 Circadian and Diurnal Calcium Oscillations Encode Photoperiodic Information in Arabidopsis John Love, Antony N. Dodd, and Alex A.R. Webb PMCID: PMC412869 Composition and Structure of the Centromeric Region of Rice Chromosome 8 Jianzhong Wu, Harumi Yamagata, Mika Hayashi-Tsugane, Saori Hijishita, Masaki Fujisawa, Michie Shibata, Yukiyo Ito, Mari Nakamura, Miyuki Sakaguchi, Rie Yoshihara, Harumi Kobayashi, Kazue Ito, Wataru Karasawa, Mayu Yamamoto, Shoko Saji, Satoshi Katagiri, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Nobukazu Namiki, Yuichi Katayose, Takashi Matsumoto, and Takuji Sasaki PMCID: PMC412870 Formation of Monoterpenes in Antirrhinum majus and Clarkia breweri Flowers Involves Heterodimeric Geranyl Diphosphate Synthases Dorothea Tholl, Christine M. Kish, Irina Orlova, Debra Sherman, Jonathan Gershenzon, Eran Pichersky, and Natalia Dudareva PMCID: PMC412871 The Arabidopsis Chloroplastic NifU-Like Protein CnfU, Which Can Act as an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Scaffold Protein, Is Required for Biogenesis of Ferredoxin and Photosystem I Toshiki Yabe, Kozo Morimoto, Shingo Kikuchi, Kazuaki Nishio, Ichiro Terashima, and Masato Nakai PMCID: PMC412872 The Novel Gene HOMOLOGOUS PAIRING ABERRATION IN RICE MEIOSIS1 of Rice Encodes a Putative Coiled-Coil Protein Required for Homologous Chromosome Pairing in Meiosis Ken-Ichi Nonomura, Mutsuko Nakano, Toshiyuki Fukuda, Mitsugu Eiguchi, Akio Miyao, Hirohiko Hirochika, and Nori Kurata PMCID: PMC412873 Arabidopsis Histone Deacetylase HDA6 Is Required for Maintenance of Transcriptional Gene Silencing and Determines Nuclear Organization of rDNA Repeats Aline V. Probst, Mathilde Fagard, Florence Proux, Philippe Mourrain, Stéphanie Boutet, Keith Earley, Richard J. Lawrence, Craig S. Pikaard, Jane Murfett, Ian Furner, Hervé Vaucheret, and Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid PMCID: PMC412874 Genetic Interaction of an Origin Recognition Complex Subunit and the Polycomb Group Gene MEDEA during Seed Development Margaret A. Collinge, Charles Spillane, Claudia Köhler, Jacqueline Gheyselinck, and Ueli Grossniklaus PMCID: PMC412875 Enod40, a Short Open Reading Frame–Containing mRNA, Induces Cytoplasmic Localization of a Nuclear RNA Binding Protein in Medicago truncatula Anna Campalans, Adam Kondorosi, and Martin Crespi PMCID: PMC412876 A Haplotype-Specific Resistance Gene Regulated by BONZAI1 Mediates Temperature-Dependent Growth Control in Arabidopsis Shuhua Yang and Jian Hua PMCID: PMC412877 |
