| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Editor's Choice Summaries of Legume Genomics Projects from around the Globe. Community Resources for Crops and Models K. A. VandenBosch and G. Stacey Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 840–865. PMCID: PMC1540284 Updates Legumes: Importance and Constraints to Greater Use P. H. Graham and C. P. Vance Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 872–877. PMCID: PMC1540286 Legume Natural Products: Understanding and Manipulating Complex Pathways for Human and Animal Health R. A. Dixon and L. W. Sumner Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 878–885. PMCID: PMC1540287 Can We Improve the Nutritional Quality of Legume Seeds? T. L. Wang, C. Domoney, C. L. Hedley, R. Casey, and M. A. Grusak Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 886–891. PMCID: PMC1540288 Recent Advances in Legume Transformation D. A. Somers, D. A. Samac, and P. M. Olhoft Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 892–899. PMCID: PMC1540289 The Rest of the Iceberg. Legume Diversity and Evolution in a Phylogenetic Context J. J. Doyle and M. A. Luckow Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 900–910. PMCID: PMC1540290 Floral Development in Legumes S. C. Tucker Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 911–926. PMCID: PMC1540291 Axillary Meristem Development. Budding Relationships between Networks Controlling Flowering, Branching, and Photoperiod Responsiveness C. A. Beveridge, J. L. Weller, S. R. Singer, and J. M. Hofer Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 927–934. PMCID: PMC1540292 Symbiosis, Inventiveness by Recruitment? K. Szczyglowski and L. Amyot Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 935–940. PMCID: PMC1540293 The ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters: Structure, Function, and Gene Family Comparison between Rice and Arabidopsis M. Jasinski, E. Ducos, E. Martinoia, and M. Boutry Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1169–1177. PMCID: PMC1540298 On the Inside Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1157–1158. PMCID: PMC1540294 Editorial Advances in Legume Biology K. VandenBosch and G. Stacey Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 839. PMCID: PMC1540283 Scientific Correspondence A TILLING Reverse Genetics Tool and a Web-Accessible Collection of Mutants of the Legume Lotus japonicus J. A. Perry, T. L. Wang, T. J. Welham, S. Gardner, J. M. Pike, S. Yoshida, and M. Parniske Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 866–871. PMCID: PMC1540285 Secretion of Secondary Metabolites by ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters in Plant Cell Suspension Cultures A. Goossens, S. T. Hakkinen, I. Laakso, K. Oksman-Caldentey, and D. Inze Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1161–1164. PMCID: PMC1540296 Rapid and Efficient Suppression of Gene Expression in a Single-Cell Model System, Ceratopteris richardii S. C. Stout, G. B. Clark, S. Archer-Evans, and S. J. Roux Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1165–1168. PMCID: PMC1540297 The Hot and the Classic Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1159–1160. PMCID: PMC1540295 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures A Cluster of Genes Encodes the Two Types of Chalcone Isomerase Involved in the Biosynthesis of General Flavonoids and Legume-Specific 5-Deoxy(iso)flavonoids in Lotus japonicus Norimoto Shimada, Toshio Aoki, Shusei Sato, Yasukazu Nakamura, Satoshi Tabata, and Shin-ichi Ayabe Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 941–951. doi: 10.1104/pp.004820.PMCID: PMC166860 Conformation of a Group 2 Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein from Soybean. Evidence of Poly (l-Proline)-type II Structure Jose L. Soulages, Kangmin Kim, Estela L. Arrese, Christina Walters, and John C. Cushman Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 963–975. doi: 10.1104/pp.015891.PMCID: PMC166862 Mapping the Proteome of Barrel Medic (Medicago truncatula) Bonnie S. Watson, Victor S. Asirvatham, Liangjiang Wang, and Lloyd W. Sumner Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1104–1123. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.019034.PMCID: PMC166875 4-Coumarate:Coenzyme A Ligase Has the Catalytic Capacity to Synthesize and Reuse Various (Di)Adenosine Polyphosphates Małgorzata Pietrowska-Borek, Hans-Peter Stuible, Erich Kombrink, and Andrzej Guranowski Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1401–1410. doi: 10.1104/pp.011684.PMCID: PMC166899 One-Carbon Metabolism in Plants. Regulation of Tetrahydrofolate Synthesis during Germination and Seedling Development Samuel Jabrin, Stéphane Ravanel, Bernadette Gambonnet, Roland Douce, and Fabrice Rébeillé Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1431–1439. doi: 10.1104/pp.016915.PMCID: PMC166902 Chemical Form and Distribution of Selenium and Sulfur in the Selenium Hyperaccumulator Astragalus bisulcatus Ingrid J. Pickering, Carrie Wright, Ben Bubner, Danielle Ellis, Michael W. Persans, Eileen Y. Yu, Graham N. George, Roger C. Prince, and David E. Salt Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1460–1467. doi: 10.1104/pp.014787.PMCID: PMC166905 The Role of Biotin in Regulating 3-Methylcrotonyl-Coenzyme A Carboxylase Expression in Arabidopsis Ping Che, Lisa M. Weaver, Eve Syrkin Wurtele, and Basil J. Nikolau Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1479–1486. doi: 10.1104/pp.013243.PMCID: PMC166907 Tobacco Transgenic Lines That Express Fenugreek Galactomannan Galactosyltransferase Constitutively Have Structurally Altered Galactomannans in Their Seed Endosperm Cell Walls J.S. Grant Reid, Mary E. Edwards, Cathryn A. Dickson, Catherine Scott, and Michael J. Gidley Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1487–1495. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016840.PMCID: PMC166908 Carbon Export from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Roots Involves the Translocation of Carbohydrate as well as Lipid Berta Bago, Philip E. Pfeffer, Jehad Abubaker, Jeongwon Jun, James W. Allen, Janine Brouillette, David D. Douds, Peter J. Lammers, and Yair Shachar-Hill Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1496–1507. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.007765.PMCID: PMC166909 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Enhanced Gravitropism of Roots with a Disrupted Cap Actin Cytoskeleton Guichuan Hou, Deepti R. Mohamalawari, and Elison B. Blancaflor Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1360–1373. doi: 10.1104/pp.014423.PMCID: PMC166895 A Novel Cl− Inward-Rectifying Current in the Plasma Membrane of the Calcifying Marine Phytoplankton Coccolithus pelagicus Alison R. Taylor and Colin Brownlee Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1391–1400. doi: 10.1104/pp.011791.PMCID: PMC166898 Development and Hormone Action Expression of an Expansin Gene Is Correlated with Root Elongation in Soybean Dong-Keun Lee, Ji Hoon Ahn, Sang-Kee Song, Yang Do Choi, and Jong Seob Lee Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 985–997. doi: 10.1104/pp.009902.PMCID: PMC166864 The Medicago Species A2-Type Cyclin Is Auxin Regulated and Involved in Meristem Formation But Dispensable for Endoreduplication-Associated Developmental Programs François Roudier, Elena Fedorova, Manuel Lebris, Phillippe Lecomte, Janos Györgyey, Daniele Vaubert, Gabor Horvath, Pierre Abad, Adam Kondorosi, and Eva Kondorosi Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1091–1103. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.011122.PMCID: PMC166874 Pollination-, Development-, and Auxin-Specific Regulation of Gibberellin 3β-Hydroxylase Gene Expression in Pea Fruit and Seeds Jocelyn A. Ozga, Jody Yu, and Dennis M. Reinecke Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1137–1146. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.015974.PMCID: PMC166877 Expression Studies of Gibberellin Oxidases in Developing Pumpkin Seeds Andrea Frisse, Maria João Pimenta, and Theo Lange Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1220–1227. doi: 10.1104/pp.015206.PMCID: PMC166882 The Arabidopsis Mutant alh1 Illustrates a Cross Talk between Ethylene and Auxin Filip Vandenbussche, Jan Smalle, Jie Le, Nelson José Madeira Saibo, Annelies De Paepe, Laury Chaerle, Olaf Tietz, Raphael Smets, Lucas J.J. Laarhoven, Frans J.M. Harren, Harry Van Onckelen, Klaus Palme, Jean-Pierre Verbelen, and Dominique Van Der Straeten Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1228–1238. doi: 10.1104/pp.010850.PMCID: PMC166883 Sterols Regulate Development and Gene Expression in Arabidopsis Jun-Xian He, Shozo Fujioka, Tsai-Chi Li, Shin Gene Kang, Hideharu Seto, Suguru Takatsuto, Shigeo Yoshida, and Jyan-Chyun Jang Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1258–1269. doi: 10.1104/pp.014605.PMCID: PMC166886 Transgenic Studies on the Involvement of Cytokinin and Gibberellin in Male Development Shihshieh Huang, R. Eric Cerny, Youlin Qi, Deepti Bhat, Carrie M. Aydt, Doris D. Hanson, Kathleen P. Malloy, and Linda A. Ness Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1270–1282. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.018598.PMCID: PMC166887 Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase Is Involved in Auxin-Mediated Cell Elongation during Wheat Embryo Development Nicole Rober-Kleber, Jolana T.P. Albrechtová, Sonja Fleig, Norbert Huck, Wolfgang Michalke, Edgar Wagner, Volker Speth, Gunther Neuhaus, and Christiane Fischer-Iglesias Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1302–1312. doi: 10.1104/pp.013466.PMCID: PMC166890 Auxin Signaling in Arabidopsis Leaf Vascular Development Jim Mattsson, Wenzislava Ckurshumova, and Thomas Berleth Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1327–1339. doi: 10.1104/pp.013623.PMCID: PMC166892 Phytochromes B, D, and E Act Redundantly to Control Multiple Physiological Responses in Arabidopsis Keara A. Franklin, Uta Praekelt, Wendy M. Stoddart, Olivia E. Billingham, Karen J. Halliday, and Garry C. Whitelam Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1340–1346. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.015487.PMCID: PMC166893 O-Glucosylation of cis-Zeatin in Maize. Characterization of Genes, Enzymes, and Endogenous Cytokinins Yeonjin K. Veach, Ruth C. Martin, David W.S. Mok, Jiri Malbeck, Radomira Vankova, and Machteld C. Mok Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1374–1380. doi: 10.1104/pp.017210.PMCID: PMC166896 Phytochromes A and B Mediate Red-Light-Induced Positive Phototropism in Roots John Z. Kiss, Jack L. Mullen, Melanie J. Correll, and Roger P. Hangarter Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1411–1417. doi: 10.1104/pp.013847.PMCID: PMC166900 CsAGP1, a Gibberellin-Responsive Gene from Cucumber Hypocotyls, Encodes a Classical Arabinogalactan Protein and Is Involved in Stem Elongation Me Hea Park, Yoshihito Suzuki, Makiko Chono, J. Paul Knox, and Isomaro Yamaguchi Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1450–1459. doi: 10.1104/pp.015628.PMCID: PMC166904 Environmental Stress and Adaptation Enhanced Selenium Tolerance and Accumulation in Transgenic Arabidopsis Expressing a Mouse Selenocysteine Lyase Marinus Pilon, Jennifer D. Owen, Gulnara F. Garifullina, Tatsuo Kurihara, Hisaaki Mihara, Nobuyoshi Esaki, and Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1250–1257. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.014639.PMCID: PMC166885 Expression of a GALACTINOL SYNTHASE Gene in Tomato Seeds Is Up-Regulated before Maturation Desiccation and Again after Imbibition whenever Radicle Protrusion Is Prevented Bruce Downie, Sunitha Gurusinghe, Petambar Dahal, Richard R. Thacker, John C. Snyder, Hiroyuki Nonogaki, Kyuock Yim, Keith Fukanaga, Veria Alvarado, and Kent J. Bradford Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1347–1359. doi: 10.1104/pp.016386.PMCID: PMC166894 Regulation of Root Elongation under Phosphorus Stress Involves Changes in Ethylene Responsiveness Zhong Ma, Tobias I. Baskin, Kathleen M. Brown, and Jonathan P. Lynch Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1381–1390. doi: 10.1104/pp.012161.PMCID: PMC166897 Biphasic Superoxide Generation in Potato Tubers. A Self-Amplifying Response to Stress S.M. Johnson, S.J. Doherty, and R.R.D. Croy Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1440–1449. doi: 10.1104/pp.013300.PMCID: PMC166903 Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Evolution Syntenic Relationships between Medicago truncatula and Arabidopsis Reveal Extensive Divergence of Genome Organization Hongyan Zhu, Dong-Jin Kim, Jong-Min Baek, Hong-Kyu Choi, Leland C. Ellis, Helge Küester, W. Richard McCombie, Hui-Mei Peng, and Douglas R. Cook Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1018–1026. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016436.PMCID: PMC166867 Dual Intracellular Localization and Targeting of Aminoimidazole Ribonucleotide Synthetase in Cowpea Danica Erin Goggin, Richard Lipscombe, Elena Fedorova, A. Harvey Millar, Anthea Mann, Craig Anthony Atkins, and Penelope Mary Collina Smith Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1033–1041. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.015081.PMCID: PMC166869 A Phylogenomic Investigation of CYCLOIDEA-Like TCP Genes in the Leguminosae Hélène L. Citerne, Da Luo, R. Toby Pennington, Enrico Coen, and Quentin C.B. Cronk Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1042–1053. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016311.PMCID: PMC166870 Nylon Filter Arrays Reveal Differential Gene Expression in Proteoid Roots of White Lupin in Response to Phosphorus Deficiency Claudia Uhde-Stone, Kelly E. Zinn, Mario Ramirez-Yáñez, Aiguo Li, Carroll P. Vance, and Deborah L. Allan Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1064–1079. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016881.PMCID: PMC166872 Genetic Diversity of Eurycoma longifolia Inferred from Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Asiah Osman, Barbara Jordan, Philip A. Lessard, Norwati Muhammad, M. Rosli Haron, Norifiza Mat Riffin, Anthony J. Sinskey, ChoKyun Rha, and David E. Housman Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1294–1301. doi: 10.1104/pp.012492.PMCID: PMC166889 Whole-Genome Comparison of Leucine-Rich Repeat Extensins in Arabidopsis and Rice. A Conserved Family of Cell Wall Proteins Form a Vegetative and a Reproductive Clade Nicolas Baumberger, Brigitte Doesseger, Romain Guyot, Anouck Diet, Ronald L. Parsons, Mark A. Clark, M.P. Simmons, Patricia Bedinger, Stephen A. Goff, Christoph Ringli, and Beat Keller Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1313–1326. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.014928.PMCID: PMC166891 Regulation of the Alternative Oxidase Aox1 Gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Role of the Nitrogen Source on the Expression of a Reporter Gene under the Control of the Aox1 Promoter Denis Baurain, Monique Dinant, Nadine Coosemans, and René F. Matagne Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1418–1430. doi: 10.1104/pp.013409.PMCID: PMC166901 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms A Diffusible Factor from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Induces Symbiosis-Specific MtENOD11 Expression in Roots of Medicago truncatula Sonja Kosuta, Mireille Chabaud, Géraldine Lougnon, Clare Gough, Jean Dénarié, David G. Barker, and Guillaume Bécard Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 952–962. doi: 10.1104/pp.011882.PMCID: PMC166861 Nod Factor Elicits Two Separable Calcium Responses in Medicago truncatula Root Hair Cells Sidney L. Shaw and Sharon R. Long Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 976–984. doi: 10.1104/pp.005546.PMCID: PMC166863 Dual Genetic Pathways Controlling Nodule Number in Medicago truncatula R. Varma Penmetsa, Julia A. Frugoli, Lucinda S. Smith, Sharon R. Long, and Douglas R. Cook Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 998–1008. doi: 10.1104/pp.015677.PMCID: PMC166865 The Sym35 Gene Required for Root Nodule Development in Pea Is an Ortholog of Nin from Lotus japonicus Alexey Y. Borisov, Lene H. Madsen, Viktor E. Tsyganov, Yosuke Umehara, Vera A. Voroshilova, Arsen O. Batagov, Niels Sandal, Anita Mortensen, Leif Schauser, Noel Ellis, Igor A. Tikhonovich, and Jens Stougaard Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1009–1017. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016071.PMCID: PMC166866 Identification and Characterization of Nodulation-Signaling Pathway 2, a Gene of Medicago truncatula Involved in Nod Factor Signaling Giles E.D. Oldroyd and Sharon R. Long Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1027–1032. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.010710.PMCID: PMC166868 crinkle, a Novel Symbiotic Mutant That Affects the Infection Thread Growth and Alters the Root Hair, Trichome, and Seed Development in Lotus japonicus Myra L. Tansengco, Makoto Hayashi, Masayoshi Kawaguchi, Haruko Imaizumi-Anraku, and Yoshikatsu Murooka Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1054–1063. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.017020.PMCID: PMC166871 Proteome Analysis. Novel Proteins Identified at the Peribacteroid Membrane from Lotus japonicus Root Nodules Stefanie Wienkoop and Gerhard Saalbach Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1080–1090. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.015362.PMCID: PMC166873 Expression of the Apyrase-Like APY1 Genes in Roots of Medicago truncatula Is Induced Rapidly and Transiently by Stress and Not by Sinorhizobium meliloti or Nod Factors Maria-Teresa Navarro-Gochicoa, Sylvie Camut, Andreas Niebel, and Julie V. Cullimore Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1124–1136. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.010926.PMCID: PMC166876 Pto Mutants Differentially Activate Prf-Dependent, avrPto-Independent Resistance and Gene-for- Gene Resistance Fangming Xiao, Ming Lu, Jianxiong Li, Tiehan Zhao, Seung Young Yi, Venkatappa K. Thara, Xiaoyan Tang, and Jian-Min Zhou Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1239–1249. doi: 10.1104/pp.016113.PMCID: PMC166884 Isolation and Properties of Floral Defensins from Ornamental Tobacco and Petunia Fung T. Lay, Filippa Brugliera, and Marilyn A. Anderson Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1283–1293. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016626.PMCID: PMC166888 Root Factors Induce Mitochondrial-Related Gene Expression and Fungal Respiration during the Developmental Switch from Asymbiosis to Presymbiosis in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus Gigaspora rosea M'Barek Tamasloukht, Nathalie Séjalon-Delmas, Astrid Kluever, Alain Jauneau, Christophe Roux, Guillaume Bécard, and Philipp Franken Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1468–1478. doi: 10.1104/pp.012898.PMCID: PMC166906 Whole Plant and Ecophysiology In Vivo Gas Exchange Measurement of the Site and Dynamics of Nitrate Reduction in Soybean Yan-Ping Cen and David B. Layzell Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1147–1156. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.019430.PMCID: PMC166878 Bioinformatics Arabidopsis Proteins Containing Similarity to the Universal Stress Protein Domain of Bacteria David Kerk, Joshua Bulgrien, Douglas W. Smith, and Michael Gribskov Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1209–1219. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.016006.PMCID: PMC166881 Genome Analysis Analysis of the Plastidic phosphate translocator Gene Family in Arabidopsis and Identification of New phosphate translocator-Homologous Transporters, Classified by Their Putative Substrate-Binding Site Silke Knappe, Ulf-Ingo Flügge, and Karsten Fischer Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1178–1190. doi: 10.1104/pp.016519.PMCID: PMC166879 Analysis of the Small GTPase Gene Superfamily of Arabidopsis Vanessa Vernoud, Amy C. Horton, Zhenbiao Yang, and Erik Nielsen Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1191–1208. doi: 10.1104/pp.013052.PMCID: PMC166880 Correction Plant Physiol. 2003 March; 131(3): 1508. PMCID: PMC166859 Corrects: Olivier Loudet, et al. Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis of Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 2003 January; 131(1): 345–358. |