| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Focus Issue on Plant Databases Editorial Biological Databases for Plant Research Seung Yon Rhee and Bill Crosby Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 1–3. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.900158.PMCID: PMC1104154 Bioinformatics BioMOBY Successfully Integrates Distributed Heterogeneous Bioinformatics Web Services. The PlaNet Exemplar Case Mark Wilkinson, Heiko Schoof, Rebecca Ernst, and Dirk Haase Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 5–17. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.059170.PMCID: PMC1104155 The Institute for Genomic Research Osa1 Rice Genome Annotation Database Qiaoping Yuan, Shu Ouyang, Aihui Wang, Wei Zhu, Rama Maiti, Haining Lin, John Hamilton, Brian Haas, Razvan Sultana, Foo Cheung, Jennifer Wortman, and C. Robin Buell Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 18–26. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.059063.PMCID: PMC1104156 MetaCyc and AraCyc. Metabolic Pathway Databases for Plant Research Peifen Zhang, Hartmut Foerster, Christophe P. Tissier, Lukas Mueller, Suzanne Paley, Peter D. Karp, and Seung Y. Rhee Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 27–37. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.060376.PMCID: PMC1104157 Databases and Information Integration for the Medicago truncatula Genome and Transcriptome Steven B. Cannon, John A. Crow, Michael L. Heuer, Xiaohong Wang, Ethalinda K.S. Cannon, Christopher Dwan, Anne-Francoise Lamblin, Jayprakash Vasdewani, Joann Mudge, Andrew Cook, John Gish, Foo Cheung, Steve Kenton, Timothy M. Kunau, Douglas Brown, Gregory D. May, Dongjin Kim, Douglas R. Cook, Bruce A. Roe, Chris D. Town, Nevin D. Young, and Ernest F. Retzel Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 38–46. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.059204.PMCID: PMC1104158 Genome Cluster Database. A Sequence Family Analysis Platform for Arabidopsis and Rice Kevin Horan, Josh Lauricha, Julia Bailey-Serres, Natasha Raikhel, and Thomas Girke Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 47–54. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.059048.PMCID: PMC1104159 The Maize Genetics and Genomics Database. The Community Resource for Access to Diverse Maize Data Carolyn J. Lawrence, Trent E. Seigfried, and Volker Brendel Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 55–58. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.059196.PMCID: PMC1104160 Plant Protein Annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase Michel Schneider, Amos Bairoch, Cathy H. Wu, and Rolf Apweiler Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 59–66. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058933.PMCID: PMC1104161 Toward Supportive Data Collection Tools for Plant Metabolomics Helen Jenkins, Helen Johnson, Baldeep Kular, Trevor Wang, and Nigel Hardy Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 67–77. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058875.PMCID: PMC1104162 On the Inside On the Inside Peter V. Minorsky Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 78–79. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.900146.PMCID: PMC1104163 Bioinformatics FPC Web Tools for Rice, Maize, and Distribution Vishal Pampanwar, Friedrich Engler, James Hatfield, Steve Blundy, Gaurav Gupta, and Carol Soderlund Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 116–126. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.056291.PMCID: PMC1104167 Genome Analysis Organ-Specific Expression of Arabidopsis Genome during Development Ligeng Ma, Ning Sun, Xigang Liu, Yuling Jiao, Hongyu Zhao, and Xing Wang Deng Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 80–91. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.054783.PMCID: PMC1104164 Evolutionary Divergence of Monocot and Dicot Methyl-CpG-Binding Domain Proteins Nathan M. Springer and Shawn M. Kaeppler Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 92–104. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.060566.PMCID: PMC1104165 Large-Scale Identification of Expressed Sequence Tags Involved in Rice and Rice Blast Fungus Interaction Chatchawan Jantasuriyarat, Malali Gowda, Karl Haller, Jamie Hatfield, Guodong Lu, Eric Stahlberg, Bo Zhou, Huameng Li, HyRan Kim, Yeisoo Yu, Ralph A. Dean, Rod A. Wing, Carol Soderlund, and Guo-Liang Wang Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 105–115. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.055624.PMCID: PMC1104166 Meeting Report Abiotic Stress and Plant Genome Evolution. Search for New Models Anna Amtmann, Hans J. Bohnert, and Ray A. Bressan Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 127–130. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059972.PMCID: PMC1104168 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures Characterization and Expression Patterns of UDP-d-Glucuronate Decarboxylase Genes in Barley Qisen Zhang, Neil Shirley, Jelle Lahnstein, and Geoffrey B. Fincher Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 131–141. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.057869.PMCID: PMC1104169 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Polyamine Levels and Polyamine Anabolism in Different Organs/Tissues of the Tobacco Plant. Correlations with Age, Cell Division/Expansion, and Differentiation Konstantinos A. Paschalidis and Kalliopi A. Roubelakis-Angelakis Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 142–152. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.055483.PMCID: PMC1104170 STIG1 Controls Exudate Secretion in the Pistil of Petunia and Tobacco Tamara Verhoeven, Richard Feron, Mieke Wolters-Arts, Johan Edqvist, Tom Gerats, Jan Derksen, and Celestina Mariani Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 153–160. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.054809.PMCID: PMC1104171 Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis in Chloroplasts. Involvement of the Scaffold Protein CpIscA Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Hong Ye, Gulnara F. Garifullina, Lihong Zhang, Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits, and Marinus Pilon Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 161–172. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058602.PMCID: PMC1104172 Sanguinarine Biosynthesis Is Associated with the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Cultured Opium Poppy Cells after Elicitor Treatment Joenel Alcantara, David A. Bird, Vincent R. Franceschi, and Peter J. Facchini Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 173–183. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059287.PMCID: PMC1104173 Mutants of Arabidopsis Lacking a Chloroplastic Isoamylase Accumulate Phytoglycogen and an Abnormal Form of Amylopectin Fabrice Wattebled, Ying Dong, Sylvain Dumez, David Delvallé, Véronique Planchot, Pierre Berbezy, Darshna Vyas, Paul Colonna, Manash Chatterjee, Steven Ball, and Christophe D'Hulst Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 184–195. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059295.PMCID: PMC1104174 Functional Characterization and Expression Analysis of a Gene, OsENT2, Encoding an Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter in Rice Suggest a Function in Cytokinin Transport Naoya Hirose, Nobue Makita, Tomoyuki Yamaya, and Hitoshi Sakakibara Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 196–206. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.060137.PMCID: PMC1104175 Identification of a Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Acyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase from the Diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana Thierry Tonon, Renwei Qing, David Harvey, Yi Li, Tony Robert Larson, and Ian Alexander Graham Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 402–408. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.054528.PMCID: PMC1104193 Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of the Selenocysteine Se-Methyltransferase Gene and Se-Methylselenocysteine Synthesis in Broccoli Sangbom M. Lyi, Laurence I. Heller, Michael Rutzke, Ross M. Welch, Leon V. Kochian, and Li Li Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 409–420. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.056549.PMCID: PMC1104194 Betaxanthins as Substrates for Tyrosinase. An Approach to the Role of Tyrosinase in the Biosynthetic Pathway of Betalains Fernando Gandía-Herrero, Josefa Escribano, and Francisco García-Carmona Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 421–432. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.057992.PMCID: PMC1104195 O-Acetylserine and the Regulation of Expression of Genes Encoding Components for Sulfate Uptake and Assimilation in Potato Laura Hopkins, Saroj Parmar, Anna Błaszczyk, Holger Hesse, Rainer Hoefgen, and Malcolm J. Hawkesford Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 433–440. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.057521.PMCID: PMC1104196 Why Is Golden Rice Golden (Yellow) Instead of Red? Patrick Schaub, Salim Al-Babili, Rachel Drake, and Peter Beyer Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 441–450. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.057927.PMCID: PMC1104197 Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis Localization of Soluble β-Carbonic Anhydrase in the Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Sorting to the Chloroplast and Cluster Formation on the Girdle Lamellae Yuji Tanaka, Daisuke Nakatsuma, Hisashi Harada, Maki Ishida, and Yusuke Matsuda Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 207–217. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058982.PMCID: PMC1104176 Increased Sedoheptulose-1,7-Bisphosphatase Activity in Transgenic Tobacco Plants Stimulates Photosynthesis and Growth from an Early Stage in Development Stephane Lefebvre, Tracy Lawson, Oksana V. Zakhleniuk, Julie C. Lloyd, and Christine A. Raines Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 451–460. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.055046.PMCID: PMC1104198 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Identification and Characterization of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Degradation Proteins Differentially Affected by Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Mariana E. Kirst, David J. Meyer, Bryan C. Gibbon, Rudolf Jung, and Rebecca S. Boston Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 218–231. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.060087.PMCID: PMC1104177 Development and Hormone Action A Novel Short-Root Gene Encodes a Glucosamine-6-Phosphate Acetyltransferase Required for Maintaining Normal Root Cell Shape in Rice Huawu Jiang, Shaomin Wang, Lei Dang, Shoufeng Wang, Hanmin Chen, Yunrong Wu, Xinhang Jiang, and Ping Wu Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 232–242. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058248.PMCID: PMC1104178 Molecular Cloning of GA 2-Oxidase3 from Spinach and Its Ectopic Expression in Nicotiana sylvestris Dong Ju Lee and Jan A.D. Zeevaart Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 243–254. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.056499.PMCID: PMC1104179 Ethylene-Regulated Floral Volatile Synthesis in Petunia Corollas Beverly A. Underwood, Denise M. Tieman, Kenichi Shibuya, Richard J. Dexter, Holly M. Loucas, Andrew J. Simkin, Charles A. Sims, Eric A. Schmelz, Harry J. Klee, and David G. Clark Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 255–266. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.051144.PMCID: PMC1104180 Ethylene Insensitivity Conferred by the Green-ripe and Never-ripe 2 Ripening Mutants of Tomato Cornelius S. Barry, Ryan P. McQuinn, Andrew J. Thompson, Graham B. Seymour, Donald Grierson, and James J. Giovannoni Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 267–275. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.057745.PMCID: PMC1104181 Environmental Stress and Adaptation The Pivotal Roles of the Plant S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase 5′ Untranslated Leader Sequence in Regulation of Gene Expression at the Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Levels Wen-Wei Hu, Haibiao Gong, and Eng Chong Pua Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 276–286. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.056770.PMCID: PMC1104182 Citrate Secretion Coupled with the Modulation of Soybean Root Tip under Aluminum Stress. Up-Regulation of Transcription, Translation, and Threonine-Oriented Phosphorylation of Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase Hong Shen, Long Fei He, Takayuki Sasaki, Yoko Yamamoto, Shao Jian Zheng, Ayalew Ligaba, Xiao Long Yan, Sung Ju Ahn, Mineo Yamaguchi, Hideo Sasakawa, and Hideaki Matsumoto Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 287–296. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058065.PMCID: PMC1104183 Immobilization of Aluminum with Phosphorus in Roots Is Associated with High Aluminum Resistance in Buckwheat Shao Jian Zheng, Jian Li Yang, Yun Feng He, Xue Hui Yu, Lei Zhang, Jiang Feng You, Ren Fang Shen, and Hideaki Matsumoto Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 297–303. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059667.PMCID: PMC1104184 Systems Rebalancing of Metabolism in Response to Sulfur Deprivation, as Revealed by Metabolome Analysis of Arabidopsis Plants Victoria J. Nikiforova, Joachim Kopka, Vladimir Tolstikov, Oliver Fiehn, Laura Hopkins, Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Holger Hesse, and Rainer Hoefgen Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 304–318. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.053793.PMCID: PMC1104185 The LPB1 Gene Is Important for Acclimation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to Phosphorus and Sulfur Deprivation Chiung-Wen Chang, Jeffrey L. Moseley, Dennis Wykoff, and Arthur R. Grossman Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 319–329. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059550.PMCID: PMC1104186 Antifreeze Proteins Modify the Freezing Process In Planta Marilyn Griffith, Chelsey Lumb, Steven B. Wiseman, Michael Wisniewski, Robert W. Johnson, and Alejandro G. Marangoni Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 330–340. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058628.PMCID: PMC1104187 Arabidopsis CBF3/DREB1A and ABF3 in Transgenic Rice Increased Tolerance to Abiotic Stress without Stunting Growth Se-Jun Oh, Sang Ik Song, Youn Shic Kim, Hyun-Jun Jang, Soo Young Kim, Minjeong Kim, Yeon-Ki Kim, Baek Hie Nahm, and Ju-Kon Kim Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 341–351. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.059147.PMCID: PMC1104188 Characterization of Arsenate Reductase in the Extract of Roots and Fronds of Chinese Brake Fern, an Arsenic Hyperaccumulator Gui-Lan Duan, Yong-Guan Zhu, Yi-Ping Tong, Chao Cai, and Ralf Kneer Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 461–469. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.057422.PMCID: PMC1104199 A Plant Notices Insect Egg Deposition and Changes Its Rate of Photosynthesis Roland Schröder, Manfred Forstreuter, and Monika Hilker Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 470–477. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059915.PMCID: PMC1104200 Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Evolution Transcriptional Profiling of Sorghum Induced by Methyl Jasmonate, Salicylic Acid, and Aminocyclopropane Carboxylic Acid Reveals Cooperative Regulation and Novel Gene Responses Ron A. Salzman, Jeff A. Brady, Scott A. Finlayson, Christina D. Buchanan, Elizabeth J. Summer, Feng Sun, Patricia E. Klein, Robert R. Klein, Lee H. Pratt, Marie-Michèle Cordonnier-Pratt, and John E. Mullet Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 352–368. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058206.PMCID: PMC1104189 Unique Translation Initiation at the Second AUG Codon Determines Mitochondrial Localization of the Phage-Type RNA Polymerases in the Moss Physcomitrella patens Yukihiro Kabeya and Naoki Sato Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 369–382. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059501.PMCID: PMC1104190 Nematode Infection Triggers the de Novo Formation of Unloading Phloem That Allows Macromolecular Trafficking of Green Fluorescent Protein into Syncytia Stefan Hoth, Alexander Schneidereit, Christian Lauterbach, Joachim Scholz-Starke, and Norbert Sauer Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 383–392. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058800.PMCID: PMC1104191 Cloning and Characterization of GLOSSY1, a Maize Gene Involved in Cuticle Membrane and Wax Production Monica Sturaro, Hans Hartings, Elmon Schmelzer, Riccardo Velasco, Francesco Salamini, and Mario Motto Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 478–489. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058164.PMCID: PMC1104201 Genome-Based Examination of Chlorophyll and Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Martin Lohr, Chung-Soon Im, and Arthur R. Grossman Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 490–515. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.056069.PMCID: PMC1104202 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms A Stilbene Synthase Gene (SbSTS1) Is Involved in Host and Nonhost Defense Responses in Sorghum Christine K.Y. Yu, Karin Springob, Jürgen Schmidt, Ralph L. Nicholson, Ivan K. Chu, Wing Kin Yip, and Clive Lo Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 393–401. doi: 10.1104/pp.105.059337.PMCID: PMC1104192 Antisense Suppression of a (+)-δ-Cadinene Synthase Gene in Cotton Prevents the Induction of This Defense Response Gene during Bacterial Blight Infection But Not Its Constitutive Expression Belinda J. Townsend, Andrew Poole, Christopher J. Blake, and Danny J. Llewellyn Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 516–528. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.056010.PMCID: PMC1104203 Virus Induction of Heat Shock Protein 70 Reflects a General Response to Protein Accumulation in the Plant Cytosol Frederic Aparicio, Carole L. Thomas, Carsten Lederer, Yan Niu, Daowen Wang, and Andrew J. Maule Plant Physiol. 2005 May; 138(1): 529–536. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.058958.PMCID: PMC1104204 |