| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Focus Issue on Legume Biology Updates Legume Transcription Factors: Global Regulators of Plant Development and Response to the Environment Michael K. Udvardi, Klementina Kakar, Maren Wandrey, Ombretta Montanari, Jeremy Murray, Andry Andriankaja, Ji-Yi Zhang, Vagner Benedito, Julie M.I. Hofer, Foo Chueng, and Christopher D. Town PMCID: PMC1914172 Translocation in Legumes: Assimilates, Nutrients, and Signaling Molecules Craig Anthony Atkins and Penelope Mary Collina Smith PMCID: PMC1914204 Using Genomics to Study Legume Seed Development Brandon H. Le, Javier A. Wagmaister, Tomokazu Kawashima, Anhthu Q. Bui, John J. Harada, and Robert B. Goldberg PMCID: PMC1914191 Legume Evolution: Where Do Nodules and Mycorrhizas Fit In? Janet I. Sprent and Euan K. James PMCID: PMC1914177 Recent Advances in Legume-Microbe Interactions: Recognition, Defense Response, and Symbiosis from a Genomic Perspective Deborah A. Samac and Michelle A. Graham PMCID: PMC1914196 Genome Sequencing and Genome Resources in Model Legumes Shusei Sato, Yasukazu Nakamura, Erika Asamizu, Sachiko Isobe, and Satoshi Tabata PMCID: PMC1914170 Genomic and Genetic Control of Phosphate Stress in Legumes Mesfin Tesfaye, Junqi Liu, Deborah L. Allan, and Carroll P. Vance PMCID: PMC1914184 Nutrient Sharing between Symbionts James White, Jurgen Prell, Euan K. James, and Philip Poole PMCID: PMC1914197 Genomes of the Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria of Legumes Allyson M. MacLean, Turlough M. Finan, and Michael J. Sadowsky PMCID: PMC1914180 Editorial Legume Biology: Sequence to Seeds Mark R. O'Brian and Carroll P. Vance PMCID: PMC1914164 Genome Analysis Molecular Evolution of Lysin Motif-Type Receptor-Like Kinases in Plants Xue-Cheng Zhang, Xiaolei Wu, Seth Findley, Jinrong Wan, Marc Libault, Henry T. Nguyen, Steven B. Cannon, and Gary Stacey PMCID: PMC1914208 Research Articles The Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha Expresses Orthologs of the Fungal Agaricus bisporus Agglutinin Family Willy J. Peumans, Elke Fouquaert, Alain Jauneau, Pierre Rougé, Nausicaä Lannoo, Hiroki Hamada, Richard Alvarez, Bart Devreese, and Els J.M. Van Damme PMCID: PMC1914199 Pea LATE BLOOMER1 Is a GIGANTEA Ortholog with Roles in Photoperiodic Flowering, Deetiolation, and Transcriptional Regulation of Circadian Clock Gene Homologs Valérie Hecht, Claire L. Knowles, Jacqueline K. Vander Schoor, Lim Chee Liew, Sarah E. Jones, Misty J.M. Lambert, and James L. Weller PMCID: PMC1914181 A Novel Family of Lectins Evolutionarily Related to Class V Chitinases: An Example of Neofunctionalization in Legumes Els J.M. Van Damme, Raphaël Culerrier, Annick Barre, Richard Alvarez, Pierre Rougé, and Willy J. Peumans PMCID: PMC1914163 A Diffusible Signal from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Elicits a Transient Cytosolic Calcium Elevation in Host Plant Cells Lorella Navazio, Roberto Moscatiello, Andrea Genre, Mara Novero, Barbara Baldan, Paola Bonfante, and Paola Mariani PMCID: PMC1914206 An IRE-Like AGC Kinase Gene, MtIRE, Has Unique Expression in the Invasion Zone of Developing Root Nodules in Medicago truncatula Catalina I. Pislariu and Rebecca Dickstein PMCID: PMC1914176 Mastoparan Activates Calcium Spiking Analogous to Nod Factor-Induced Responses in Medicago truncatula Root Hair Cells Jongho Sun, Hiroki Miwa, J. Allan Downie, and Giles E.D. Oldroyd PMCID: PMC1914167 The MtMMPL1 Early Nodulin Is a Novel Member of the Matrix Metalloendoproteinase Family with a Role in Medicago truncatula Infection by Sinorhizobium meliloti Jean-Philippe Combier, Tatiana Vernié, Françoise de Billy, Fikri El Yahyaoui, René Mathis, and Pascal Gamas PMCID: PMC1914174 A Symbiotic Plant Peroxidase Involved in Bacterial Invasion of the Tropical Legume Sesbania rostrata Jeroen Den Herder, Sam Lievens, Stephane Rombauts, Marcelle Holsters, and Sofie Goormachtig PMCID: PMC1914168 RNAi Silencing of Genes for Elicitation or Biosynthesis of 5-Deoxyisoflavonoids Suppresses Race-Specific Resistance and Hypersensitive Cell Death in Phytophthora sojae Infected Tissues Terrence L. Graham, Madge Y. Graham, Senthil Subramanian, and Oliver Yu PMCID: PMC1914209 Flavone Synthases from Medicago truncatula Are Flavanone-2-Hydroxylases and Are Important for Nodulation Juan Zhang, Senthil Subramanian, Yansheng Zhang, and Oliver Yu PMCID: PMC1914186 Phosphorus Stress in Common Bean: Root Transcript and Metabolic Responses Georgina Hernández, Mario Ramírez, Oswaldo Valdés-López, Mesfin Tesfaye, Michelle A. Graham, Tomasz Czechowski, Armin Schlereth, Maren Wandrey, Alexander Erban, Foo Cheung, Hank C. Wu, Miguel Lara, Christopher D. Town, Joachim Kopka, Michael K. Udvardi, and Carroll P. Vance PMCID: PMC1914166 Developmental Genes Have Pleiotropic Effects on Plant Morphology and Source Capacity, Eventually Impacting on Seed Protein Content and Productivity in Pea Judith Burstin, Pascal Marget, Myriam Huart, Annie Moessner, Brigitte Mangin, Christiane Duchene, Bruno Desprez, Nathalie Munier-Jolain, and Gérard Duc PMCID: PMC1914171 Enzymatic Evidence for the Key Role of Arginine in Nitrogen Translocation by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Cristina Cruz, Helge Egsgaard, Carmen Trujillo, Per Ambus, Natalia Requena, Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, and Iver Jakobsen PMCID: PMC1914155 Cowpea Chloroplastic ATP Synthase Is the Source of Multiple Plant Defense Elicitors during Insect Herbivory Eric A. Schmelz, Sherry LeClere, Mark J. Carroll, Hans T. Alborn, and Peter E.A. Teal PMCID: PMC1914193 TILLING Mutants of Lotus japonicus Reveal That Nitrogen Assimilation and Fixation Can Occur in the Absence of Nodule-Enhanced Sucrose Synthase Irmtraud Horst, Tracey Welham, Simon Kelly, Takakazu Kaneko, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata, Martin Parniske, and Trevor L. Wang PMCID: PMC1914161 The Maize Zmsmu2 Gene Encodes a Putative RNA-Splicing Factor That Affects Protein Synthesis and RNA Processing during Endosperm Development Taijoon Chung, Cheol Soo Kim, Hong N. Nguyen, Robert B. Meeley, and Brian A. Larkins PMCID: PMC1914153 Temporal and Spatial Expression of the Major Allergens in Developing and Germinating Peanut Seed Il-Ho Kang, Pratibha Srivastava, Peggy Ozias-Akins, and Maria Gallo PMCID: PMC1914213 On the Inside On the Inside Peter V. Minorsky PMCID: PMC1914157 Bioinformatics EGENES: Transcriptome-Based Plant Database of Genes with Metabolic Pathway Information and Expressed Sequence Tag Indices in KEGG Ali Masoudi-Nejad, Susumu Goto, Ruy Jauregui, Masumi Ito, Shuichi Kawashima, Yuki Moriya, Takashi R. Endo, and Minoru Kanehisa PMCID: PMC1914165 Breakthrough Technologies Gene Targeting by Homologous Recombination as a Biotechnological Tool for Rice Functional Genomics Rie Terada, Yasuyo Johzuka-Hisatomi, Miho Saitoh, Hisayo Asao, and Shigeru Iida PMCID: PMC1914187 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures tie-dyed1 Functions Non-Cell Autonomously to Control Carbohydrate Accumulation in Maize Leaves R. Frank Baker and David M. Braun PMCID: PMC1914200 The Structure of Two N-Methyltransferases from the Caffeine Biosynthetic Pathway Andrew A. McCarthy and James G. McCarthy PMCID: PMC1914188 Genetic Dissection of Histidine Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis Rosanna Muralla, Colleen Sweeney, Asya Stepansky, Thomas Leustek, and David Meinke PMCID: PMC1914156 Deficiency in Phosphatidylserine Decarboxylase Activity in the psd1 psd2 psd3 Triple Mutant of Arabidopsis Affects Phosphatidylethanolamine Accumulation in Mitochondria Annika Nerlich, Melanie von Orlow, Denis Rontein, Andrew D. Hanson, and Peter Dörmann PMCID: PMC1914192 Functional Analysis of PDX2 from Arabidopsis, a Glutaminase Involved in Vitamin B6 Biosynthesis Marina Tambasco-Studart, Ivo Tews, Nikolaus Amrhein, and Teresa B. Fitzpatrick PMCID: PMC1914173 Maize Y9 Encodes a Product Essential for 15-cis-ζ-Carotene Isomerization Faqiang Li, Christina Murillo, and Eleanore T. Wurtzel PMCID: PMC1914175 New Insights into the Unique Structure of the F0F1-ATP Synthase from the Chlamydomonad Algae Polytomella sp. and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Robert van Lis, Guillermo Mendoza-Hernández, Georg Groth, and Ariane Atteia PMCID: PMC1914207 Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis Short- and Long-Term Operation of the Lutein-Epoxide Cycle in Light-Harvesting Antenna Complexes Shizue Matsubara, Tomas Morosinotto, C. Barry Osmond, and Roberto Bassi PMCID: PMC1914152 The Membrane-Associated CpcG2-Phycobilisome in Synechocystis: A New Photosystem I Antenna Kumiko Kondo, Yuriko Ochiai, Mitsunori Katayama, and Masahiko Ikeuchi PMCID: PMC1914160 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Arabidopsis Inositol Polyphosphate 6-/3-Kinase (AtIpk2β) Is Involved in Axillary Shoot Branching via Auxin Signaling Zai-Bao Zhang, Guang Yang, Fernando Arana, Zhen Chen, Yan Li, and Hui-Jun Xia PMCID: PMC1914203 White Leaf Sectors in yellow variegated2 Are Formed by Viable Cells with Undifferentiated Plastids Yusuke Kato, Eiko Miura, Ryo Matsushima, and Wataru Sakamoto PMCID: PMC1914179 The Acropetal Wave of Developmental Cell Death of Tobacco Corolla Is Preceded by Activation of Transglutaminase in Different Cell Compartments Massimiliano Della Mea, Francesca De Filippis, Valeria Genovesi, Donatella Serafini Fracassini, and Stefano Del Duca PMCID: PMC1914201 Development and Hormone Action Apyrases (Nucleoside Triphosphate-Diphosphohydrolases) Play a Key Role in Growth Control in Arabidopsis Jian Wu, Iris Steinebrunner, Yu Sun, Timothy Butterfield, Jonathan Torres, David Arnold, Antonio Gonzalez, Francis Jacob, Stuart Reichler, and Stanley J. Roux PMCID: PMC1914212 Mutation of E1-CONJUGATING ENZYME-RELATED1 Decreases RELATED TO UBIQUITIN Conjugation and Alters Auxin Response and Development Andrew W. Woodward, Sarah E. Ratzel, Erin E. Woodward, Yousif Shamoo, and Bonnie Bartel PMCID: PMC1914210 Analysis of Leaf Development in fugu Mutants of Arabidopsis Reveals Three Compensation Modes That Modulate Cell Expansion in Determinate Organs Ali Ferjani, Gorou Horiguchi, Satoshi Yano, and Hirokazu Tsukaya PMCID: PMC1914195 barren inflorescence2 Encodes a Co-Ortholog of the PINOID Serine/Threonine Kinase and Is Required for Organogenesis during Inflorescence and Vegetative Development in Maize Paula McSteen, Simon Malcomber, Andrea Skirpan, China Lunde, Xianting Wu, Elizabeth Kellogg, and Sarah Hake PMCID: PMC1914211 A Reevaluation of the Key Factors That Influence Tomato Fruit Softening and Integrity Montserrat Saladié, Antonio J. Matas, Tal Isaacson, Matthew A. Jenks, S. Mark Goodwin, Karl J. Niklas, Ren Xiaolin, John M. Labavitch, Kenneth A. Shackel, Alisdair R. Fernie, Anna Lytovchenko, Malcolm A. O'Neill, Chris B. Watkins, and Jocelyn K.C. Rose PMCID: PMC1914194 Environmental Stress and Adaptation to Stress Differential Regulation of Sorbitol and Sucrose Loading into the Phloem of Plantago major in Response to Salt Stress Benjamin Pommerrenig, Flavia Stal Papini-Terzi, and Norbert Sauer PMCID: PMC1914202 Induction of Isoforms of Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Enzymes, AtHEMA2 and AtFC1, under Stress Conditions and Their Physiological Functions in Arabidopsis Satoshi Nagai, Masumi Koide, Shigekazu Takahashi, Akihiro Kikuta, Mitsuko Aono, Yuko Sasaki-Sekimoto, Hiroyuki Ohta, Ken-ichiro Takamiya, and Tatsuru Masuda PMCID: PMC1914178 A Major Quantitative Trait Locus for Cadmium Tolerance in Arabidopsis halleri Colocalizes with HMA4, a Gene Encoding a Heavy Metal ATPase Mikael Courbot, Glenda Willems, Patrick Motte, Samuel Arvidsson, Nancy Roosens, Pierre Saumitou-Laprade, and Nathalie Verbruggen PMCID: PMC1914159 Arabidopsis, a Model to Study Biological Functions of Isoprene Emission? Maaria Loivamäki, Frank Gilmer, Robert J. Fischbach, Christoph Sörgel, Anette Bachl, Achim Walter, and Jörg-Peter Schnitzler PMCID: PMC1914154 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms Comprehensive Transcriptome Profiling in Tomato Reveals a Role for Glycosyltransferase in Mi-Mediated Nematode Resistance Jennifer E. Schaff, Dahlia M. Nielsen, Chris P. Smith, Elizabeth H. Scholl, and David McK. Bird PMCID: PMC1914198 Mutations in LACS2, a Long-Chain Acyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase, Enhance Susceptibility to Avirulent Pseudomonas syringae But Confer Resistance to Botrytis cinerea in Arabidopsis Dingzhong Tang, Michael T. Simonich, and Roger W. Innes PMCID: PMC1914183 The Response of Carbon Metabolism and Antioxidant Defenses of Alfalfa Nodules to Drought Stress and to the Subsequent Recovery of Plants Loreto Naya, Ruben Ladrera, Javier Ramos, Esther M. González, Cesar Arrese-Igor, Frank R. Minchin, and Manuel Becana PMCID: PMC1914205 Overlap of Proteome Changes in Medicago truncatula in Response to Auxin and Sinorhizobium meliloti Giel E. van Noorden, Tursun Kerim, Nicolas Goffard, Robert Wiblin, Flavia I. Pellerone, Barry G. Rolfe, and Ulrike Mathesius PMCID: PMC1914185 Barley MLO Modulates Actin-Dependent and Actin-Independent Antifungal Defense Pathways at the Cell Periphery Marco Miklis, Chiara Consonni, Riyaz A. Bhat, Volker Lipka, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Ralph Panstruga PMCID: PMC1914182 The GH3 Acyl Adenylase Family Member PBS3 Regulates Salicylic Acid-Dependent Defense Responses in Arabidopsis K. Nobuta, R.A. Okrent, M. Stoutemyer, N. Rodibaugh, L. Kempema, M.C. Wildermuth, and R.W. Innes PMCID: PMC1914169 Sebacina vermifera Promotes the Growth and Fitness of Nicotiana attenuata by Inhibiting Ethylene Signaling Oz Barazani, Caroline C. von Dahl, and Ian T. Baldwin PMCID: PMC1914189 Whole Plant and Ecophysiology Intact Plant Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Study Dynamics in Long-Distance Sap Flow and Flow-Conducting Surface Area T.W.J. Scheenen, F.J. Vergeldt, A.M. Heemskerk, and H. Van As PMCID: PMC1914158 The Gravitropic Response of Poplar Trunks: Key Roles of Prestressed Wood Regulation and the Relative Kinetics of Cambial Growth versus Wood Maturation Catherine Coutand, Meriem Fournier, and Bruno Moulia PMCID: PMC1914190 Correction Plant Physiol. 2007 June; 144(2): 1233. doi: 10.1104/pp.104.900225.PMCID: PMC1914162 Corrects: Hui Chen, et al. Stability of Plant Defense Proteins in the Gut of Insect Herbivores. Plant Physiol. 2007 April; 143(4): 1954–1967. |
