| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Focus Issue on Plant-Herbivore Interactions Updates Facing the Future of Plant-Insect Interaction Research: Le Retour à la “Raison d'Être” May R. Berenbaum and Arthur R. Zangerl PMCID: PMC2259083 Ecological Genomics of Plant-Insect Interactions: From Gene to Community Si-Jun Zheng and Marcel Dicke PMCID: PMC2259077 Plant Defense Priming against Herbivores: Getting Ready for a Different Battle Christopher J. Frost, Mark C. Mescher, John E. Carlson, and Consuelo M. De Moraes PMCID: PMC2259053 Recognition of Herbivory-Associated Molecular Patterns Axel Mithöfer and Wilhelm Boland PMCID: PMC2259064 New Weapons and a Rapid Response against Insect Attack John Browse and Gregg A. Howe PMCID: PMC2259070 Cross Talk in Defense Signaling Annemart Koornneef and Corné M.J. Pieterse PMCID: PMC2259093 Why Does Herbivore Attack Reconfigure Primary Metabolism? Jens Schwachtje and Ian T. Baldwin PMCID: PMC2259057 Arthropod-Inducible Proteins: Broad Spectrum Defenses against Multiple Herbivores Keyan Zhu-Salzman, Dawn S. Luthe, and Gary W. Felton PMCID: PMC2259088 Avoiding Effective Defenses: Strategies Employed by Phloem-Feeding Insects Linda L. Walling PMCID: PMC2259051 Interactions between Arthropod-Induced Aboveground and Belowground Defenses in Plants Matthias Erb, Jurriaan Ton, Jörg Degenhardt, and Ted C.J. Turlings PMCID: PMC2259098 In Defense of Roots: A Research Agenda for Studying Plant Resistance to Belowground Herbivory Sergio Rasmann and Anurag A. Agrawal PMCID: PMC2259042 Biotechnological Prospects for Engineering Insect-Resistant Plants John A. Gatehouse PMCID: PMC2259060 Editorial Plant Interactions with Arthropod Herbivores: State of the Field Georg Jander and Gregg Howe PMCID: PMC2259074 Research Articles Functional Analysis of the Kunitz Trypsin Inhibitor Family in Poplar Reveals Biochemical Diversity and Multiplicity in Defense against Herbivores Ian T. Major and C. Peter Constabel PMCID: PMC2259082 Comparisons of LIPOXYGENASE3- and JASMONATE-RESISTANT4/6-Silenced Plants Reveal That Jasmonic Acid and Jasmonic Acid-Amino Acid Conjugates Play Different Roles in Herbivore Resistance of Nicotiana attenuata Lei Wang, Silke Allmann, Jinsong Wu, and Ian T. Baldwin PMCID: PMC2259097 Indole-3-Acetonitrile Production from Indole Glucosinolates Deters Oviposition by Pieris rapae Martin de Vos, Ksenia L. Kriksunov, and Georg Jander PMCID: PMC2259081 A Comparison of Two Nicotiana attenuata Accessions Reveals Large Differences in Signaling Induced by Oral Secretions of the Specialist Herbivore Manduca sexta Jianqiang Wu, Christian Hettenhausen, Meredith C. Schuman, and Ian T. Baldwin PMCID: PMC2259078 Characterization of the Monoterpene Synthase Gene tps26, the Ortholog of a Gene Induced by Insect Herbivory in Maize Changfa Lin, Binzhang Shen, Zhennan Xu, Tobias G. Köllner, Jörg Degenhardt, and Hugo K. Dooner PMCID: PMC2259071 Regulation and Function of Arabidopsis JASMONATE ZIM-Domain Genes in Response to Wounding and Herbivory Hoo Sun Chung, Abraham J.K. Koo, Xiaoli Gao, Sastry Jayanty, Bryan Thines, A. Daniel Jones, and Gregg A. Howe PMCID: PMC2259048 Effects of Feeding Spodoptera littoralis on Lima Bean Leaves: IV. Diurnal and Nocturnal Damage Differentially Initiate Plant Volatile Emission Gen-ichiro Arimura, Sabrina Köpke, Maritta Kunert, Veronica Volpe, Anja David, Peter Brand, Paulina Dabrowska, Massimo E. Maffei, and Wilhelm Boland PMCID: PMC2259069 Silencing Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase in Nicotiana attenuata Dramatically Impairs Resistance to Tobacco Hornworm Amir Reza Jassbi, Klaus Gase, Christian Hettenhausen, Axel Schmidt, and Ian T. Baldwin PMCID: PMC2259063 Parasitism by Cuscuta pentagona Attenuates Host Plant Defenses against Insect Herbivores Justin B. Runyon, Mark C. Mescher, and Consuelo M. De Moraes PMCID: PMC2259072 Characterization of Pea Aphid Resistance in Medicago truncatula Ling-Ling Gao, John P. Klingler, Jonathan P. Anderson, Owain R. Edwards, and Karam B. Singh PMCID: PMC2259086 Tailoring the Specificity of a Plant Cystatin toward Herbivorous Insect Digestive Cysteine Proteases by Single Mutations at Positively Selected Amino Acid Sites Marie-Claire Goulet, Cindy Dallaire, Louis-Philippe Vaillancourt, Moustafa Khalf, Amine M. Badri, Andreja Preradov, Marc-Olivier Duceppe, Charles Goulet, Conrad Cloutier, and Dominique Michaud PMCID: PMC2259044 Letters to the Editor Multiple Vacuoles in Plant Cells John C. Rogers PMCID: PMC2259039 Response to Rogers Letter Lorenzo Frigerio and (on behalf of all the coauthors) PMCID: PMC2259055 On the Inside On the Inside Peter V. Minorsky PMCID: PMC2259094 Editorial Plant Physiology and TAIR Partnership Donald R. Ort and Aleel K. Grennan PMCID: PMC2259079 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures Arabidopsis Branched-Chain Aminotransferase 3 Functions in Both Amino Acid and Glucosinolate Biosynthesis Tanja Knill, Joachim Schuster, Michael Reichelt, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Stefan Binder PMCID: PMC2259058 Bitterness in Almonds Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, Kirsten Jørgensen, Carl Erik Olsen, Federico Dicenta, and Birger Lindberg Møller PMCID: PMC2259050 Elucidation of the Final Reactions of DIMBOA-Glucoside Biosynthesis in Maize: Characterization of Bx6 and Bx7 Rafal Jonczyk, Holger Schmidt, Anne Osterrieder, Andreas Fiesselmann, Katrin Schullehner, Martin Haslbeck, Dieter Sicker, Diana Hofmann, Nasser Yalpani, Carl Simmons, Monika Frey, and Alfons Gierl PMCID: PMC2259038 The Structure of Chloroplast DNA Molecules and the Effects of Light on the Amount of Chloroplast DNA during Development in Medicago truncatula Jeffrey M. Shaver, Delene J. Oldenburg, and Arnold J. Bendich PMCID: PMC2259089 Cloning and Characterization of Naringenin 8-Prenyltransferase, a Flavonoid-Specific Prenyltransferase of Sophora flavescens Kanako Sasaki, Kouji Mito, Kazuaki Ohara, Hirobumi Yamamoto, and Kazufumi Yazaki PMCID: PMC2259047 Tie-dyed2 Functions with Tie-dyed1 to Promote Carbohydrate Export from Maize Leaves R. Frank Baker and David M. Braun PMCID: PMC2259043 PSY3, a New Member of the Phytoene Synthase Gene Family Conserved in the Poaceae and Regulator of Abiotic Stress-Induced Root Carotenogenesis Faqiang Li, Ratnakar Vallabhaneni, and Eleanore T. Wurtzel PMCID: PMC2259096 Coimmunopurification of Phosphorylated Bacterial- and Plant-Type Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylases with the Plastidial Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex from Developing Castor Oil Seeds R. Glen Uhrig, Brendan O'Leary, H. Elizabeth Spang, Justin A. MacDonald, Yi-Min She, and William C. Plaxton PMCID: PMC2259066 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Myosin XI-K Is Required for Rapid Trafficking of Golgi Stacks, Peroxisomes, and Mitochondria in Leaf Cells of Nicotiana benthamiana Dror Avisar, Alexey I. Prokhnevsky, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, and Valerian V. Dolja PMCID: PMC2259067 Two Class XI Myosins Function in Organelle Trafficking and Root Hair Development in Arabidopsis Valera V. Peremyslov, Alexey I. Prokhnevsky, Dror Avisar, and Valerian V. Dolja PMCID: PMC2259062 Light Induces Peroxisome Proliferation in Arabidopsis Seedlings through the Photoreceptor Phytochrome A, the Transcription Factor HY5 HOMOLOG, and the Peroxisomal Protein PEROXIN11b Mintu Desai and Jianping Hu PMCID: PMC2259046 Microtubules Are a Target for Self-Incompatibility Signaling in Papaver Pollen Natalie S. Poulter, Sabina Vatovec, and Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong PMCID: PMC2259054 Development and Hormone Action Functional Characterization of PaLAX1, a Putative Auxin Permease, in Heterologous Plant Systems Klára Hoyerová, Lucie Perry, Paul Hand, Martina Laňková, Tomáš Kocábek, Sean May, Jana Kottová, Jan Pačes, Richard Napier, and Eva Zažímalová PMCID: PMC2259084 GeBP and GeBP-Like Proteins Are Noncanonical Leucine-Zipper Transcription Factors That Regulate Cytokinin Response in Arabidopsis Florian Chevalier, Daniel Perazza, Frédéric Laporte, Gaëlle Le Hénanff, Patricia Hornitschek, Jean-Marc Bonneville, Michel Herzog, and Gilles Vachon PMCID: PMC2259040 Farnesylation Directs AtIPT3 Subcellular Localization and Modulates Cytokinin Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis Arnaud Galichet, Klára Hoyerová, Miroslav Kamínek, and Wilhelm Gruissem PMCID: PMC2259095 SEUSS and AINTEGUMENTA Mediate Patterning and Ovule Initiation during Gynoecium Medial Domain Development Sridevi Azhakanandam, Staci Nole-Wilson, Fang Bao, and Robert G. Franks PMCID: PMC2259068 An AGAMOUS-Related MADS-Box Gene, XAL1 (AGL12), Regulates Root Meristem Cell Proliferation and Flowering Transition in Arabidopsis Rosalinda Tapia-López, Berenice García-Ponce, Joseph G. Dubrovsky, Adriana Garay-Arroyo, Rigoberto V. Pérez-Ruíz, Sun-Hyung Kim, Francisca Acevedo, Soraya Pelaz, and Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla PMCID: PMC2259045 The Maize Viviparous8 Locus, Encoding a Putative ALTERED MERISTEM PROGRAM1-Like Peptidase, Regulates Abscisic Acid Accumulation and Coordinates Embryo and Endosperm Development Masaharu Suzuki, Susan Latshaw, Yutaka Sato, A. Mark Settles, Karen E. Koch, L. Curtis Hannah, Mikiko Kojima, Hitoshi Sakakibara, and Donald R. McCarty PMCID: PMC2259049 High Temperature-Induced Abscisic Acid Biosynthesis and Its Role in the Inhibition of Gibberellin Action in Arabidopsis Seeds Shigeo Toh, Akane Imamura, Asuka Watanabe, Kazumi Nakabayashi, Masanori Okamoto, Yusuke Jikumaru, Atsushi Hanada, Yukie Aso, Kanako Ishiyama, Noriko Tamura, Satoshi Iuchi, Masatomo Kobayashi, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Yuji Kamiya, Eiji Nambara, and Naoto Kawakami PMCID: PMC2259091 Phytochrome- and Gibberellin-Mediated Regulation of Abscisic Acid Metabolism during Germination of Photoblastic Lettuce Seeds Yoshiaki Sawada, Miki Aoki, Kentaro Nakaminami, Wataru Mitsuhashi, Kiyoshi Tatematsu, Tetsuo Kushiro, Tomokazu Koshiba, Yuji Kamiya, Yasunori Inoue, Eiji Nambara, and Tomonobu Toyomasu PMCID: PMC2259076 Environmental Stress and Adaptation to Stress Water Transport by Aquaporins in the Extant Plant Physcomitrella patens David Liénard, Gaëlle Durambur, Marie-Christine Kiefer-Meyer, Fabien Nogué, Laurence Menu-Bouaouiche, Florence Charlot, Véronique Gomord, and Jean-Paul Lassalles PMCID: PMC2259052 Cooperative Ethylene and Jasmonic Acid Signaling Regulates Selenite Resistance in Arabidopsis Masanori Tamaoki, John L. Freeman, and Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits PMCID: PMC2259059 Arabidopsis Stromal 70-kD Heat Shock Proteins Are Essential for Plant Development and Important for Thermotolerance of Germinating Seeds Pai-Hsiang Su and Hsou-min Li PMCID: PMC2259073 Comparative Genomic Sequence and Expression Analyses of Medicago truncatula and Alfalfa Subspecies falcata COLD-ACCLIMATION-SPECIFIC Genes Joyce C. Pennycooke, Hongmei Cheng, and Eric J. Stockinger PMCID: PMC2259090 Silicon Uptake in Diatoms Revisited: A Model for Saturable and Nonsaturable Uptake Kinetics and the Role of Silicon Transporters Kimberlee Thamatrakoln and Mark Hildebrand PMCID: PMC2259041 Complex Signaling Network in Regulation of Adenosine 5′-Phosphosulfate Reductase by Salt Stress in Arabidopsis Roots Anna Koprivova, Kathryn Anne North, and Stanislav Kopriva PMCID: PMC2259037 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms The Plant Defense Elicitor Cryptogein Stimulates Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Correlated with Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Bright Yellow-2 Tobacco Cells Nathalie Leborgne-Castel, Jeannine Lherminier, Christophe Der, Jérôme Fromentin, Valérie Houot, and Françoise Simon-Plas PMCID: PMC2259092 Modulation of the Hormone Setting by Rhodococcus fascians Results in Ectopic KNOX Activation in Arabidopsis Stephen Depuydt, Karel Doležal, Mieke Van Lijsebettens, Thomas Moritz, Marcelle Holsters, and Danny Vereecke PMCID: PMC2259056 Ascorbate and Homoglutathione Metabolism in Common Bean Nodules under Stress Conditions and during Natural Senescence Jorge Loscos, Manuel A. Matamoros, and Manuel Becana PMCID: PMC2259085 MYB72 Is Required in Early Signaling Steps of Rhizobacteria-Induced Systemic Resistance in Arabidopsis Sjoerd Van der Ent, Bas W.M. Verhagen, Ronald Van Doorn, Daniel Bakker, Maarten G. Verlaan, Michiel J.C. Pel, Ruth G. Joosten, Marcel C.G. Proveniers, L.C. Van Loon, Jurriaan Ton, and Corné M.J. Pieterse PMCID: PMC2259080 Genome-Wide Expression Profiling Arabidopsis at the Stage of Golovinomyces cichoracearum Haustorium Formation Georgina Fabro, Julio A. Di Rienzo, Christian A. Voigt, Tatyana Savchenko, Katayoon Dehesh, Shauna Somerville, and María Elena Alvarez PMCID: PMC2259087 Metabolic Profiles of Lolium perenne Are Differentially Affected by Nitrogen Supply, Carbohydrate Content, and Fungal Endophyte Infection Susanne Rasmussen, Anthony J. Parsons, Karl Fraser, Hong Xue, and Jonathan A. Newman PMCID: PMC2259065 Systems Biology, Molecular Biology, and Gene Regulation Stamen Abscission Zone Transcriptome Profiling Reveals New Candidates for Abscission Control: Enhanced Retention of Floral Organs in Transgenic Plants Overexpressing Arabidopsis ZINC FINGER PROTEIN2 Suqin Cai and Coralie C. Lashbrook PMCID: PMC2259061 Serine Palmitoyltransferase, a Key Enzyme for de Novo Synthesis of Sphingolipids, Is Essential for Male Gametophyte Development in Arabidopsis Chong Teng, Haili Dong, Lihua Shi, Yan Deng, Jinye Mu, Jian Zhang, Xiaohui Yang, and Jianru Zuo PMCID: PMC2259075 |
