| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. In This Issue Oxylipin Signaling in Plant Stress Responses Nancy A. Eckardt Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 495–497. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.059485.PMCID: PMC2329930 In Brief The IMEter Predicts an Intron's Ability to Boost Gene Expression Kathleen L. Farquharson Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 498. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.200310.PMCID: PMC2329940 Aquaporins and Chloroplast Membrane Permeability Nancy A. Eckardt Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 499. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.200311.PMCID: PMC2329933 Cellulose Synthesis in Phytophthora infestans Pathogenesis Jennifer Mach Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 500. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.200312.PMCID: PMC2329929 Heritability of the Tomato Fruit Metabolome Nancy A. Eckardt Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 501. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.200313.PMCID: PMC2329924 Current Perspective Essay: Special Series on Large-Scale Biology Pond Scum Genomics: The Genomes of Chlamydomonas and Ostreococcus Graham Peers and Krishna K. Niyogi Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 502–507. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056556.PMCID: PMC2329942 Research Articles Mode of Inheritance of Primary Metabolic Traits in Tomato Nicolas Schauer, Yaniv Semel, Ilse Balbo, Matthias Steinfath, Dirk Repsilber, Joachim Selbig, Tzili Pleban, Dani Zamir, and Alisdair R. Fernie Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 509–523. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056523.PMCID: PMC2329927 The Leaf Epidermome of Catharanthus roseus Reveals Its Biochemical Specialization Jun Murata, Jonathon Roepke, Heather Gordon, and Vincenzo De Luca Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 524–542. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056630.PMCID: PMC2329939 Promoter-Proximal Introns in Arabidopsis thaliana Are Enriched in Dispersed Signals that Elevate Gene Expression Alan B. Rose, Tali Elfersi, Genis Parra, and Ian Korf Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 543–551. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.057190.PMCID: PMC2329928 Heme, a Plastid-Derived Regulator of Nuclear Gene Expression in Chlamydomonas Erika D. von Gromoff, Ali Alawady, Linda Meinecke, Bernhard Grimm, and Christoph F. Beck Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 552–567. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.054650.PMCID: PMC2329926 The Highly Similar Arabidopsis Homologs of Trithorax ATX1 and ATX2 Encode Proteins with Divergent Biochemical Functions Abdelaty Saleh, Raul Alvarez-Venegas, Mehtap Yilmaz, Oahn-Le, Guichuan Hou, Monther Sadder, Ayed Al-Abdallat, Yuannan Xia, Guoqinq Lu, Istvan Ladunga, and Zoya Avramova Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 568–579. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056614.PMCID: PMC2329920 ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX1 Dynamically Regulates FLOWERING LOCUS C Activation via Histone 3 Lysine 4 Trimethylation Stéphane Pien, Delphine Fleury, Joshua S. Mylne, Pedro Crevillen, Dirk Inzé, Zoya Avramova, Caroline Dean, and Ueli Grossniklaus Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 580–588. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.058172.PMCID: PMC2329943 EMB2473/MIRO1, an Arabidopsis Miro GTPase, Is Required for Embryogenesis and Influences Mitochondrial Morphology in Pollen Shohei Yamaoka and Christopher J. Leaver Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 589–601. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.055756.PMCID: PMC2329936 Haplo-Insufficiency of MPK3 in MPK6 Mutant Background Uncovers a Novel Function of These Two MAPKs in Arabidopsis Ovule Development Huachun Wang, Yidong Liu, Kristin Bruffett, Justin Lee, Gerd Hause, John C. Walker, and Shuqun Zhang Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 602–613. doi: 10.1105/tpc.108.058032.PMCID: PMC2329925 Exclusion of a Proton ATPase from the Apical Membrane Is Associated with Cell Polarity and Tip Growth in Nicotiana tabacum Pollen Tubes Ana C. Certal, Ricardo B. Almeida, Lara M. Carvalho, Eric Wong, Nuno Moreno, Erwan Michard, Jorge Carneiro, Joaquín Rodriguéz-Léon, Hen-Ming Wu, Alice Y. Cheung, and José A. Feijó Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 614–634. doi: 10.1105/tpc.106.047423.PMCID: PMC2329945 The AGL62 MADS Domain Protein Regulates Cellularization during Endosperm Development in Arabidopsis Il-Ho Kang, Joshua G. Steffen, Michael F. Portereiko, Alan Lloyd, and Gary N. Drews Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 635–647. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.055137.PMCID: PMC2329934 Function of Nicotiana tabacum Aquaporins as Chloroplast Gas Pores Challenges the Concept of Membrane CO2 Permeability Norbert Uehlein, Beate Otto, David T. Hanson, Matthias Fischer, Nate McDowell, and Ralf Kaldenhoff Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 648–657. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.054023.PMCID: PMC2329941 The Arabidopsis P4-ATPase ALA3 Localizes to the Golgi and Requires a β-Subunit to Function in Lipid Translocation and Secretory Vesicle Formation Lisbeth Rosager Poulsen, Rosa Laura López-Marqués, Stephen C. McDowell, Juha Okkeri, Dirk Licht, Alexander Schulz, Thomas Pomorski, Jeffrey F. Harper, and Michael Gjedde Palmgren Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 658–676. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.054767.PMCID: PMC2329932 The Arabidopsis thaliana Type I Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerases Are Targeted to Multiple Subcellular Compartments and Have Overlapping Functions in Isoprenoid Biosynthesis Michael A. Phillips, John C. D'Auria, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Eran Pichersky Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 677–696. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.053926.PMCID: PMC2329938 The F-Box Protein ACRE189/ACIF1 Regulates Cell Death and Defense Responses Activated during Pathogen Recognition in Tobacco and Tomato Harrold A. van den Burg, Dimitrios I. Tsitsigiannis, Owen Rowland, Jane Lo, Ghanasyam Rallapalli, Daniel MacLean, Frank L.W. Takken, and Jonathan D.G. Jones Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 697–719. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056978.PMCID: PMC2329923 Cellulose Synthesis in Phytophthora infestans Is Required for Normal Appressorium Formation and Successful Infection of Potato Laura J. Grenville-Briggs, Victoria L. Anderson, Johanna Fugelstad, Anna O. Avrova, Jamel Bouzenzana, Alison Williams, Stephan Wawra, Stephen C. Whisson, Paul R.J. Birch, Vincent Bulone, and Pieter van West Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 720–738. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.052043.PMCID: PMC2329931 The Coiled-Coil and Nucleotide Binding Domains of the Potato Rx Disease Resistance Protein Function in Pathogen Recognition and Signaling Gregory J. Rairdan, Sarah M. Collier, Melanie A. Sacco, Thomas T. Baldwin, Teresa Boettrich, and Peter Moffett Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 739–751. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056036.PMCID: PMC2329922 A MYB Transcription Factor Regulates Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acid Biosynthesis for Activation of the Hypersensitive Cell Death Response in Arabidopsis Sylvain Raffaele, Fabienne Vailleau, Amandine Léger, Jérôme Joubès, Otto Miersch, Carine Huard, Elisabeth Blée, Sébastien Mongrand, Frédéric Domergue, and Dominique Roby Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 752–767. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.054858.PMCID: PMC2329921 General Detoxification and Stress Responses Are Mediated by Oxidized Lipids through TGA Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis Stefan Mueller, Beate Hilbert, Katharina Dueckershoff, Thomas Roitsch, Markus Krischke, Martin J. Mueller, and Susanne Berger Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 768–785. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.054809.PMCID: PMC2329937 Modulation of Nitrosative Stress by S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase Is Critical for Thermotolerance and Plant Growth in Arabidopsis Ung Lee, Chris Wie, Bernadette O. Fernandez, Martin Feelisch, and Elizabeth Vierling Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 786–802. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.052647.PMCID: PMC2329944 Phospholipase Dα3 Is Involved in the Hyperosmotic Response in Arabidopsis Yueyun Hong, Xiangqing Pan, Ruth Welti, and Xuemin Wang Plant Cell. 2008 March; 20(3): 803–816. doi: 10.1105/tpc.107.056390.PMCID: PMC2329935 |