| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Editor's Choice The National Plant Genomics Initiative: Objectives for 2003-2008 Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1741–1744. PMCID: PMC1540268 Updates Current Status of the Sequence of the Rice Genome and Prospects for Finishing the First Monocot Genome C. R. Buell Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1585–1586. PMCID: PMC1540262 The Impact of Polyploidy on Grass Genome Evolution A. A. Levy and M. Feldman Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1587–1593. PMCID: PMC1540263 The Maize Genome Sequencing Project V. L. Chandler and V. Brendel Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1594–1597. PMCID: PMC1540264 Genetic, Physical, and Informatics Resources for Maize. On the Road to an Integrated Map K. C. Cone, M. D. McMullen, I. V. Bi, G. L. Davis, Y. Yim, J. M. Gardiner, M. L. Polacco, H. Sanchez-Villeda, Z. Fang, S. G. Schroeder, S. A. Havermann, J. E. Bowers, A. H. Paterson, C. A. Soderlund, F. W. Engler, R. A. Wing, and E. H. Coe Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1598–1605. PMCID: PMC1540265 Gramene, a Tool for Grass Genomics D. H. Ware, P. Jaiswal, J. Ni, I. V. Yap, X. Pan, K. Y. Clark, L. Teytelman, S. C. Schmidt, W. Zhao, K. Chang, S. Cartinhour, L. D. Stein, and S. R. McCouch Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1606–1613. PMCID: PMC1540266 On the Inside Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1739–1740. PMCID: PMC1540267 Resources and Opportunities Enhancer Trap Expression Patterns Provide a Novel Teaching Resource M. Geisler, B. Jablonska, and P. S. Springer Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1747–1753. PMCID: PMC1540270 Scientific Correspondence Do Plant Caspases Exist? E. J. Woltering, A. van der Bent, and F. A. Hoeberichts Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1764–1769. PMCID: PMC1540272 The Hot and the Classic Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1745–1746. PMCID: PMC1540269 Breakthrough Technologies Rapid Structural Phenotyping of Plant Cell Wall Mutants by Enzymatic Oligosaccharide Fingerprinting O. Lerouxel, T. S. Choo, M. Seveno, B. Usadel, L. Faye, P. Lerouge, and M. Pauly Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1754–1763. PMCID: PMC1540271 Research Articles Biochemical Processes and Macromolecular Structures Starch Biosynthesis and Intermediary Metabolism in Maize Kernels. Quantitative Analysis of Metabolite Flux by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Erich Glawischnig, Alfons Gierl, Adriana Tomas, Adelbert Bacher, and Wolfgang Eisenreich Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1717–1727. doi: 10.1104/pp.006726.PMCID: PMC166686 Characterization of Arabidopsis AtAMT2, a High-Affinity Ammonium Transporter of the Plasma Membrane Christian Sohlenkamp, Craig C. Wood, Gerhard W. Roeb, and Michael K. Udvardi Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1788–1796. doi: 10.1104/pp.008599.PMCID: PMC166690 Cloning, Functional Expression, and Subcellular Localization of Multiple NADPH-Cytochrome P450 Reductases from Hybrid Poplar Dae-Kyun Ro, Jürgen Ehlting, and Carl J. Douglas Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1837–1851. doi: 10.1104/pp.008011.PMCID: PMC166695 Expression and Biochemical Properties of a Ferredoxin-Dependent Heme Oxygenase Required for Phytochrome Chromophore Synthesis Takuya Muramoto, Noriyuki Tsurui, Matthew J. Terry, Akiho Yokota, and Takayuki Kohchi Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1958–1966. doi: 10.1104/pp.008128.PMCID: PMC166706 Germanium Does Not Substitute for Boron in Cross-Linking of Rhamnogalacturonan II in Pumpkin Cell Walls Tadashi Ishii, Toshiro Matsunaga, Hiroaki Iwai, Shinobu Satoh, and Junji Taoshita Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1967–1973. doi: 10.1104/pp.009514.PMCID: PMC166707 Molecular Analysis of a Bifunctional Fatty Acid Conjugase/Desaturase from Tung. Implications for the Evolution of Plant Fatty Acid Diversity John M. Dyer, Dorselyn C. Chapital, Jui-Chang W. Kuan, Robert T. Mullen, Charlotta Turner, Thomas A. McKeon, and Armand B. Pepperman Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2027–2038. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.010835.PMCID: PMC166714 Cloning and Expression of the Gene for Soybean Hydroxyisourate Hydrolase. Localization and Implications for Function and Mechanism Aniruddha Raychaudhuri and Peter A. Tipton Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2061–2068. doi: 10.1104/pp.011049.PMCID: PMC166717 The sac Mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Reveal Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Control of Cysteine Biosynthesis Cristina G. Ravina, Chwenn-In Chang, George P. Tsakraklides, Jeffery P. McDermott, Jose M. Vega, Thomas Leustek, Cecilia Gotor, and John P. Davies Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2076–2084. doi: 10.1104/pp.012484.PMCID: PMC166719 cDNA Cloning, Heterologous Expressions, and Functional Characterization of Malonyl-Coenzyme A:Anthocyanidin 3-O-Glucoside-6"-O-Malonyltransferase from Dahlia Flowers Hirokazu Suzuki, Toru Nakayama, Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Yuko Fukui, Noriko Nakamura, Masa-atsu Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Takaaki Kusumi, and Tokuzo Nishino Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2142–2151. doi: 10.1104/pp.010447.PMCID: PMC166726 Cloning of β-Primeverosidase from Tea Leaves, a Key Enzyme in Tea Aroma Formation Masaharu Mizutani, Hidemitsu Nakanishi, Jun-ichi Ema, Seung-Jin Ma, Etsuko Noguchi, Misa Inohara-Ochiai, Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masahiro Nakao, and Kanzo Sakata Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2164–2176. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.011023.PMCID: PMC166728 Biosynthesis of UDP-Xylose. Cloning and Characterization of a Novel Arabidopsis Gene Family, UXS, Encoding Soluble and Putative Membrane-Bound UDP-Glucuronic Acid Decarboxylase Isoforms April D. Harper and Maor Bar-Peled Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2188–2198. doi: 10.1104/pp.009654.PMCID: PMC166730 Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis Proteomics of Light-Harvesting Proteins in Different Plant Species. Analysis and Comparison by Liquid Chromatography-Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Photosystem I Lello Zolla, Sara Rinalducci, Anna Maria Timperio, and Christian G. Huber Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1938–1950. doi: 10.1104/pp.009803.PMCID: PMC166704 Phosphorylation of the D1 Photosystem II Reaction Center Protein Is Controlled by an Endogenous Circadian Rhythm Isabelle S. Booij-James, W. Mark Swegle, Marvin Edelman, and Autar K. Mattoo Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2069–2075. doi: 10.1104/pp.013441.PMCID: PMC166718 Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Molecular Characterization of a Novel Gene Family Encoding ACT Domain Repeat Proteins in Arabidopsis Ming-Hsiun Hsieh and Howard M. Goodman Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1797–1806. doi: 10.1104/pp.007484.PMCID: PMC166691 An Endoplasmic Reticulum-Derived Structure That Is Induced under Stress Conditions in Arabidopsis Ryo Matsushima, Yasuko Hayashi, Maki Kondo, Tomoo Shimada, Mikio Nishimura, and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1807–1814. doi: 10.1104/pp.009464.PMCID: PMC166692 Comparative Molecular and Functional Analyses of the Tobacco Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor NtKIS1a and Its Spliced Variant NtKIS1b Sophie Jasinski, Claudette Perennes, Catherine Bergounioux, and Nathalie Glab Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1871–1882. doi: 10.1104/pp.008573.PMCID: PMC166698 Genetic Complexity of Cellulose Synthase A Gene Function in Arabidopsis Embryogenesis Tom Beeckman, Gerhard K.H. Przemeck, George Stamatiou, Rachel Lau, Nancy Terryn, Riet De Rycke, Dirk Inzé, and Thomas Berleth Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1883–1893. doi: 10.1104/pp.102.010603.PMCID: PMC166699 Molecular Characterization of an Arabidopsis Acyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase Localized on Glyoxysomal Membranes Hiroshi Hayashi, Luigi De Bellis, Yasuko Hayashi, Kazumasa Nito, Akira Kato, Makoto Hayashi, Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, and Mikio Nishimura Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2019–2026. doi: 10.1104/pp.012955.PMCID: PMC166713 Tip-Growing Cells of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus Are Gravitropic in High-Density Media Jochen Michael Schwuchow, Volker Dieter Kern, and Fred David Sack Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2095–2100. doi: 10.1104/pp.012534.PMCID: PMC166721 Convergence of Calcium Signaling Pathways of Pathogenic Elicitors and Abscisic Acid in Arabidopsis Guard Cells Birgit Klüsener, Jared J. Young, Yoshiyuki Murata, Gethyn J. Allen, Izumi C. Mori, Veronique Hugouvieux, and Julian I. Schroeder Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2152–2163. doi: 10.1104/pp.012187.PMCID: PMC166727 The Elicitor Cryptogein Blocks Glucose Transport in Tobacco Cells Stéphane Bourque, Rémi Lemoine, Anabelle Sequeira-Legrand, Léon Fayolle, Serge Delrot, and Alain Pugin Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2177–2187. doi: 10.1104/pp.009449.PMCID: PMC166729 Both Vegetative and Reproductive Actin Isovariants Complement the Stunted Root Hair Phenotype of the Arabidopsis act2-1 Mutation Laura U. Gilliland, Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy, Lucia C. Pawloski, and Richard B. Meagher Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2199–2209. doi: 10.1104/pp.014068.PMCID: PMC166731 Development and Hormone Action Independent Control of Gibberellin Biosynthesis and Flowering Time by the Circadian Clock in Arabidopsis Miguel A. Blázquez, Marta Trénor, and Detlef Weigel Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1770–1775. doi: 10.1104/pp.007625.PMCID: PMC166688 Ectopic Expression of Carpel-Specific MADS Box Genes from Lily and Lisianthus Causes Similar Homeotic Conversion of Sepal and Petal in Arabidopsis Tsai-Yu Tzeng, Hsing-Yu Chen, and Chang-Hsien Yang Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1827–1836. doi: 10.1104/pp.007948.PMCID: PMC166694 Auxin and Ethylene Response Interactions during Arabidopsis Root Hair Development Dissected by Auxin Influx Modulators Abidur Rahman, Satoko Hosokawa, Yutaka Oono, Taisaku Amakawa, Nobuharu Goto, and Seiji Tsurumi Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1908–1917. doi: 10.1104/pp.010546.PMCID: PMC166701 Auxin Regulation of the Gibberellin Pathway in Pea Damian P. O'Neill and John J. Ross Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1974–1982. doi: 10.1104/pp.010587.PMCID: PMC166708 Effect of Ethylene Pathway Mutations upon Expression of the Ethylene Receptor ETR1 from Arabidopsis Xue-Chu Zhao, Xiang Qu, Dennis E. Mathews, and G. Eric Schaller Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1983–1991. doi: 10.1104/pp.011635.PMCID: PMC166709 Differential Regulation of RNA Levels of Gibberellin Dioxygenases by Photoperiod in Spinach Dong Ju Lee and Jan A.D. Zeevaart Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2085–2094. doi: 10.1104/pp.008581.PMCID: PMC166720 Environmental Stress and Adaptation Expressed Sequence Tag-Based Gene Expression Analysis under Aluminum Stress in Rye Miguel A. Rodriguez Milla, Ed Butler, Alicia Rodriguez Huete, Cindy F. Wilson, Olin Anderson, and J. Perry Gustafson Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1706–1716. doi: 10.1104/pp.009969.PMCID: PMC166685 Forms of Zinc Accumulated in the Hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri Géraldine Sarret, Pierre Saumitou-Laprade, Valérie Bert, Olivier Proux, Jean-Louis Hazemann, Agnès Traverse, Matthew A. Marcus, and Alain Manceau Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1815–1826. doi: 10.1104/pp.007799.PMCID: PMC166693 Nitric Oxide Improves Internal Iron Availability in Plants Magdalena Graziano, María Verónica Beligni, and Lorenzo Lamattina Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1852–1859. doi: 10.1104/pp.009076.PMCID: PMC166696 Light-Dependent Death of Maize lls1 Cells Is Mediated by Mature Chloroplasts John Gray, Diane Janick-Buckner, Brent Buckner, Pam S. Close, and Gurmukh S. Johal Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1894–1907. doi: 10.1104/pp.008441.PMCID: PMC166700 Ethylene Synthesis Regulated by Biphasic Induction of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylic Acid Synthase and 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylic Acid Oxidase Genes Is Required for Hydrogen Peroxide Accumulation and Cell Death in Ozone-Exposed Tomato Wolfgang Moeder, Cornelius S. Barry, Airi A. Tauriainen, Christian Betz, Jaana Tuomainen, Merja Utriainen, Donald Grierson, Heinrich Sandermann, Christian Langebartels, and Jaakko Kangasjärvi Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1918–1926. doi: 10.1104/pp.009712.PMCID: PMC166702 Control of Demand-Driven Biosynthesis of Glutathione in Green Arabidopsis Suspension Culture Cells Andreas J. Meyer and Mark D. Fricker Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1927–1937. doi: 10.1104/pp.008243.PMCID: PMC166703 Humic Acids Isolated from Earthworm Compost Enhance Root Elongation, Lateral Root Emergence, and Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase Activity in Maize Roots Luciano Pasqualoto Canellas, Fabio Lopes Olivares, Anna L. Okorokova-Façanha, and Arnoldo Rocha Façanha Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1951–1957. doi: 10.1104/pp.007088.PMCID: PMC166705 The Involvement of a Multicopper Oxidase in Iron Uptake by the Green Algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Alexandra Herbik, Christian Bölling, and Thomas J. Buckhout Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2039–2048. doi: 10.1104/pp.013060.PMCID: PMC166715 Plasma Membrane Aquaporins Play a Significant Role during Recovery from Water Deficit Pierre Martre, Raphaël Morillon, François Barrieu, Gretchen B. North, Park S. Nobel, and Maarten J. Chrispeels Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2101–2110. doi: 10.1104/pp.009019.PMCID: PMC166722 Transcriptome Changes for Arabidopsis in Response to Salt, Osmotic, and Cold Stress Joel A. Kreps, Yajun Wu, Hur-Song Chang, Tong Zhu, Xun Wang, and Jeff F. Harper Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2129–2141. doi: 10.1104/pp.008532.PMCID: PMC166725 Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Evolution T-DNA Insertional Mutagenesis for Activation Tagging in Rice Dong-Hoon Jeong, Suyoung An, Hong-Gyu Kang, Sunok Moon, Jong-Jin Han, Sunhee Park, Hyun Sook Lee, Kyungsook An, and Gynheung An Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1636–1644. doi: 10.1104/pp.014357.PMCID: PMC166679 Starch Biosynthesis during Pollen Maturation Is Associated with Altered Patterns of Gene Expression in Maize Rupali Datta, Karen C. Chamusco, and Prem S. Chourey Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1645–1656. doi: 10.1104/pp.006908.PMCID: PMC166680 Functional Specialization of Maize Mitochondrial Aldehyde Dehydrogenases Feng Liu and Patrick S. Schnable Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1657–1674. doi: 10.1104/pp.012336.PMCID: PMC166681 Down-Regulation of Caffeic Acid O-Methyltransferase in Maize Revisited Using a Transgenic Approach Joel Piquemal, Simon Chamayou, Isabelle Nadaud, Michel Beckert, Yves Barrière, Isabelle Mila, Catherine Lapierre, Joan Rigau, Pere Puigdomenech, Alain Jauneau, Catherine Digonnet, Alain-Michel Boudet, Deborah Goffner, and Magalie Pichon Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1675–1685. doi: 10.1104/pp.012237.PMCID: PMC166682 Characterization of Three Maize Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Libraries toward Anchoring of the Physical Map to the Genetic Map Using High-Density Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Filter Hybridization Young-Sun Yim, Georgia L. Davis, Ngozi A. Duru, Theresa A. Musket, Eric W. Linton, Joachim W. Messing, Michael D. McMullen, Carol A. Soderlund, Mary L. Polacco, Jack M. Gardiner, and Edward H. Coe, Jr. Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1686–1696. doi: 10.1104/pp.013474.PMCID: PMC166683 Dasheng and RIRE2. A Nonautonomous Long Terminal Repeat Element and Its Putative Autonomous Partner in the Rice Genome Ning Jiang, I. King Jordan, and Susan R. Wessler Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1697–1705. doi: 10.1104/pp.015412.PMCID: PMC166684 Comparative Sequence Analysis of the Sorghum Rph Region and the Maize Rp1 Resistance Gene Complex Wusirika Ramakrishna, John Emberton, Phillip SanMiguel, Matthew Ogden, Victor Llaca, Joachim Messing, and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1728–1738. doi: 10.1104/pp.014951.PMCID: PMC166687 Genetic and Physiological Analysis of Germination Efficiency in Maize in Relation to Nitrogen Metabolism Reveals the Importance of Cytosolic Glutamine Synthetase Anis M. Limami, Clothilde Rouillon, Gaëlle Glevarec, André Gallais, and Bertrand Hirel Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1860–1870. doi: 10.1104/pp.009647.PMCID: PMC166697 Cloning and Sequencing of cDNAs for Hypothetical Genes from Chromosome 2 of Arabidopsis Yong-Li Xiao, Mukesh Malik, Catherine A. Whitelaw, and Christopher D. Town Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2118–2128. doi: 10.1104/pp.010207.PMCID: PMC166724 Plants Interacting with Other Organisms Polyphenolic Allelochemicals from the Aquatic Angiosperm Myriophyllum spicatum Inhibit Photosystem II Eva Leu, Anja Krieger-Liszkay, Charilaos Goussias, and Elisabeth M. Gross Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2011–2018. doi: 10.1104/pp.011593.PMCID: PMC166712 The Maize Gene terpene synthase 1 Encodes a Sesquiterpene Synthase Catalyzing the Formation of (E)-β-Farnesene, (E)-Nerolidol, and (E,E)-Farnesol after Herbivore Damage Christiane Schnee, Tobias G. Köllner, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Jörg Degenhardt Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2049–2060. doi: 10.1104/pp.008326.PMCID: PMC166716 Whole Plant and Ecophysiology Cell Death Processes during Expression of Hybrid Lethality in Interspecific F1 Hybrid between Nicotiana gossei Domin and Nicotiana tabacum Masanobu Mino, Kenji Maekawa, Ken'ichi Ogawa, Hiroshi Yamagishi, and Masayoshi Inoue Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1776–1787. doi: 10.1104/pp.006023.PMCID: PMC166689 Temperature Response of Mesophyll Conductance. Implications for the Determination of Rubisco Enzyme Kinetics and for Limitations to Photosynthesis in Vivo Carl J. Bernacchi, Archie R. Portis, Hiromi Nakano, Susanne von Caemmerer, and Stephen P. Long Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1992–1998. doi: 10.1104/pp.008250.PMCID: PMC166710 Acclimation of Rice Photosynthesis to Irradiance under Field Conditions Erik H. Murchie, Stella Hubbart, Yizhu Chen, Shaobing Peng, and Peter Horton Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1999–2010. doi: 10.1104/pp.011098.PMCID: PMC166711 A Rice Mutant Defective in Si Uptake Jian Feng Ma, Kazunori Tamai, Masahiko Ichii, and Guo Feng Wu Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 2111–2117. doi: 10.1104/pp.010348.PMCID: PMC166723 Genome Analysis Targeted Analysis of Orthologous Phytochrome A Regions of the Sorghum, Maize, and Rice Genomes using Comparative Gene-Island Sequencing Daryl T. Morishige, Kevin L. Childs, L. David Moore, and John E. Mullet Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1614–1625. doi: 10.1104/pp.012567.PMCID: PMC166677 Contiguous Genomic DNA Sequence Comprising the 19-kD Zein Gene Family from Maize Rentao Song and Joachim Messing Plant Physiol. 2002 December; 130(4): 1626–1635. doi: 10.1104/pp.012179.PMCID: PMC166678 |