The Plant Journal - 68 (1-3), 2011

The Plant Journal - 68 (1), 2011


Contents:


FEATURED ARTICLE


Type-A response regulators are required for proper root apical meristem function through post-transcriptional regulation of PIN auxin efflux carriers (pages 1–10)

Wenjing Zhang, Jennifer P. C. To, Chia-Yi Cheng, G. Eric Schaller and Joseph J. Kieber


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Revealing impaired pathways in the an11 mutant by high-throughput characterization of Petunia axillaris and Petunia inflata transcriptomes (pages 11–27)

Sara Zenoni, Nunzio D’Agostino, Giovanni B. Tornielli, Francesca Quattrocchio, Maria L. Chiusano, Ronald Koes, Jan Zethof, Flavia Guzzo, Massimo Delledonne, Luigi Frusciante, Tom Gerats and Mario Pezzotti


Induction of telomere-mediated chromosomal truncation and stability of truncated chromosomes in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 28–39)

Chee How Teo, Lu Ma, Eszter Kapusi, Götz Hensel, Jochen Kumlehn, Ingo Schubert, Andreas Houben and Michael Florian Mette


Knockdown of CENH3 in Arabidopsis reduces mitotic divisions and causes sterility by disturbed meiotic chromosome segregation (pages 40–50)

Inna Lermontova, Olga Koroleva, Twan Rutten, Joerg Fuchs, Veit Schubert, Izabel Moraes, David Koszegi and Ingo Schubert


MTR4, a putative RNA helicase and exosome co-factor, is required for proper rRNA biogenesis and development in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 51–63)

Heike Lange, François M. Sement and Dominique Gagliardi


The occurrence of ‘bulbs’, a complex configuration of the vacuolar membrane, is affected by mutations of vacuolar SNARE and phospholipase in Arabidopsis (pages 64–73)

Chieko Saito, Tomohiro Uemura, Chie Awai, Motoki Tominaga, Kazuo Ebine, Jun Ito, Takashi Ueda, Hiroshi Abe, Miyo Terao Morita, Masao Tasaka and Akihiko Nakano


ATG2, an autophagy-related protein, negatively affects powdery mildew resistance and mildew-induced cell death in Arabidopsis (pages 74–87)

Yiping Wang, Marc T. Nishimura, Ting Zhao and Dingzhong Tang


The ethylene response factor AtERF11 that is transcriptionally modulated by the bZIP transcription factor HY5 is a crucial repressor for ethylene biosynthesis in Arabidopsis (pages 88–99)

Zhuofu Li, Lixia Zhang, Yanwen Yu, Ruidang Quan, Zhijin Zhang, Haiwen Zhang and Rongfeng Huang


Interplay between calcium signalling and early signalling elements during defence responses to microbe- or damage-associated molecular patterns (pages 100–113)

Stefanie Ranf, Lennart Eschen-Lippold, Pascal Pecher, Justin Lee and Dierk Scheel


Autoimmune response and repression of mitotic cell division occur in inter-specific crosses between tetraploid wheat and Aegilops tauschii Coss. that show low temperature-induced hybrid necrosis (pages 114–128)

Nobuyuki Mizuno, Naoki Shitsukawa, Naoki Hosogi, Pyoyun Park and Shigeo Takumi


Proton-driven sucrose symport and antiport are provided by the vacuolar transporters SUC4 and TMT1/2 (pages 129–136)

Alexander Schulz, Diana Beyhl, Irene Marten, Alexandra Wormit, Ekkehard Neuhaus, Gernot Poschet, Michael Büttner, Sabine Schneider, Norbert Sauer and Rainer Hedrich


Identification of 14-3-3 proteins as a target of ATL31 ubiquitin ligase, a regulator of the C/N response in Arabidopsis (pages 137–146)

Takeo Sato, Shugo Maekawa, Shigetaka Yasuda, Yukie Domeki, Kuni Sueyoshi, Masayuki Fujiwara, Yoichiro Fukao, Derek B. Goto and Junji Yamaguchi


TCP14 and TCP15 affect internode length and leaf shape in Arabidopsis (pages 147–158)

Martin Kieffer, Vera Master, Richard Waites and Brendan Davies


Intron splicing suppresses RNA silencing in Arabidopsis (pages 159–167)

Michael Christie, Larry J. Croft and Bernard J. Carroll


The MADS box gene, FOREVER YOUNG FLOWER, acts as a repressor controlling floral organ senescence and abscission in Arabidopsis (pages 168–185)

Ming-Kun Chen, Wei-Han Hsu, Pei-Fang Lee, Muthu Thiruvengadam, Hong-Ie Chen and Chang-Hsien Yang


TECHNICAL ADVANCE


Tn5 transposase-assisted transformation of indica rice (pages 186–200)

Jun Wu, Hongwei Du, Xuewei Liao, Yu Zhao, Liguan Li and Liuyan Yang


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The Plant Journal - 68 (2), 2011


Contents:


FEATURED ARTICLE


The charophycean green algae provide insights into the early origins of plant cell walls (pages 201–211)

Iben Sorensen, Filomena A. Pettolino, Antony Bacic, John Ralph, Fachuang Lu, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Zhangzhun Fei, Jocelyn K. C. Rose, David S. Domozych and William G. T. Willats


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


De novo genetic variation associated with retrotransposon activation, genomic rearrangements and trait variation in a recombinant inbred line population of Brassica napus derived from interspecific hybridization with Brassica rapa (pages 212–224)

Jun Zou, Donghui Fu, Huihui Gong, Wei Qian, Wei Xia, J. Chris Pires, RuiYuan Li, Yan Long, Annaliese S. Mason, Tae-Jin Yang, Yong P. Lim, Beom S. Park and Jinling Meng


Nitric oxide accumulation in Arabidopsis is independent of NOA1 in the presence of sucrose (pages 225–233)

Kalie Van Ree, Bernadette Gehl, E. Wassim Chehab, Yu-Chang Tsai and Janet Braam


A specific role for Arabidopsis TRAPPII in post-Golgi trafficking that is crucial for cytokinesis and cell polarity (pages 234–248)

Xingyun Qi, Minako Kaneda, Jun Chen, Anja Geitmann and Huanquan Zheng


Cytokinin antagonizes ABA suppression to seed germination of Arabidopsis by downregulating ABI5 expression (pages 249–261)

Yanping Wang, Lin Li, Tiantian Ye, Shujuan Zhao, Zhao Liu, Yu-Qi Feng and Yan Wu


A horizontally transferred tRNACys gene in the sugar beet mitochondrial genome: evidence that the gene is present in diverse angiosperms and its transcript is aminoacylated (pages 262–272)

Kazuyoshi Kitazaki, Tomohiko Kubo, Hiroyo Kagami, Takuma Matsumoto, Asami Fujita, Hiroaki Matsuhira, Muneyuki Matsunaga and Tetsuo Mikami


Genomic clustering of cyanogenic glucoside biosynthetic genes aids their identification in Lotus japonicus and suggests the repeated evolution of this chemical defence pathway (pages 273–286)

Adam M. Takos, Camilla Knudsen, Daniela Lai, Rubini Kannangara, Lisbeth Mikkelsen, Mohammed S. Motawia, Carl E. Olsen, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata, Kirsten Jorgensen, Birger L. Moller and Fred Rook


Characterization and expression profile of two UDP-glucosyltransferases, UGT85K4 and UGT85K5, catalyzing the last step in cyanogenic glucoside biosynthesis in cassava (pages 287–301)

Rubini Kannangara, Mohammed S. Motawia, Natascha K. K. Hansen, Suzanne M. Paquette, Carl E. Olsen, Birger L. Moller and Kirsten Jorgensen


Soybean NAC transcription factors promote abiotic stress tolerance and lateral root formation in transgenic plants (pages 302–313)

Yu-Jun Hao, Wei Wei, Qing-Xin Song, Hao-Wei Chen, Yu-Qin Zhang, Fang Wang, Hong-Feng Zou, Gang Lei, Ai-Guo Tian, Wan-Ke Zhang, Biao Ma, Jin-Song Zhang and Shou-Yi Chen


Arabidopsis thaliana alpha1,2-glucosyltransferase (ALG10) is required for efficient N-glycosylation and leaf growth (pages 314–325)

Akhlaq Farid, Martin Pabst, Jennifer Schoberer, Friedrich Altmann, Josef Glössl and Richard Strasser


Corn hybrids display lower metabolite variability and complex metabolite inheritance patterns (pages 326–336)

Jan Lisec, Lilla Römisch-Margl, Zoran Nikoloski, Hans-Peter Piepho, Patrick Giavalisco, Joachim Selbig, Alfons Gierl and Lothar Willmitzer


Interplay of MYB factors in differential cell expansion, and consequences for tomato fruit development (pages 337–350)

Katja Machemer, Oxana Shaiman, Yehiam Salts, Sara Shabtai, Irina Sobolev, Eduard Belausov, Erich Grotewold and Rivka Barg


The APC/C subunit 10 plays an essential role in cell proliferation during leaf development (pages 351–363)

Nubia B. Eloy, Marcelo de Freitas Lima, Daniël Van Damme, Hannes Vanhaeren, Nathalie Gonzalez, Liesbeth De Milde, Adriana S. Hemerly, Gerrit T. S. Beemster, Dirk Inzé and Paulo C. G. Ferreira


TECHNICAL ADVANCE


Elemental formula annotation of polar and lipophilic metabolites using 13C, 15N and 34S isotope labelling, in combination with high-resolution mass spectrometry (pages 364–376)

Patrick Giavalisco, Yan Li, Annemarie Matthes, Aenne Eckhardt, Hans-Michael Hubberten, Holger Hesse, Shruthi Segu, Jan Hummel, Karin Köhl and Lothar Willmitzer


High-resolution live imaging of plant growth in near physiological bright conditions using light sheet fluorescence microscopy (pages 377–385)

Alexis Maizel, Daniel von Wangenheim, Fernán Federici, Jim Haseloff and Ernst H.K. Stelzer


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The Plant Journal - 68 (3), 2011


Contents:

FEATURED ARTICLE


The pathway of triacylglycerol synthesis through phosphatidylcholine in Arabidopsis produces a bottleneck for the accumulation of unusual fatty acids in transgenic seeds (pages 387–399)

Philip D. Bates and John Browse


ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Specific expression of LATERAL SUPPRESSOR is controlled by an evolutionarily conserved 3' enhancer (pages 400–412)

Bodo Raatz, Andrea Eicker, Gregor Schmitz, Elisabeth Fuss, Dörte Müller, Susanne Rossmann and Klaus Theres


Endosomal signaling of the tomato leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein LeEix2 (pages 413–423)

Miya Sharfman, Maya Bar, Marcelo Ehrlich, Silvia Schuster, Shiri Melech-Bonfil, Ran Ezer, Guido Sessa and Adi Avni


Differential contribution of EF-hands to the Ca2+-dependent activation in the plant two-pore channel TPC1 (pages 424–432)

Christina Schulze, Heinrich Sticht, Petra Meyerhoff and Petra Dietrich


OsIAA23-mediated auxin signaling defines postembryonic maintenance of QC in rice (pages 433–442)

Ni Jun, Wang Gaohang, Zhu Zhenxing, Zhang Huanhuan, Wu Yunrong and Wu Ping


AtHaspin phosphorylates histone H3 at threonine 3 during mitosis and contributes to embryonic patterning in Arabidopsis (pages 443–454)

Raheleh Karimi Ashtiyani, Ali Mohammad Banaei Moghaddam, Veit Schubert, Twan Rutten, Jörg Fuchs, Dmitri Demidov, Frank R. Blattner and Andreas Houben


Arabidopsis Lateral Root Development 3 is essential for early phloem development and function, and hence for normal root system development (pages 455–467)

Paul Ingram, Jan Dettmer, Yrjo Helariutta and Jocelyn E. Malamy


Over-expression of an Na+- and K+-permeable HKT transporter in barley improves salt tolerance (pages 468–479)

Afaq Mian, Ronald J.F.J. Oomen, Stanislav Isayenkov, Hervé Sentenac, Frans J.M. Maathuis and Anne-Aliénor Véry


The Arabidopsis extracellular UNUSUAL SERINE PROTEASE INHIBITOR functions in resistance to necrotrophic fungi and insect herbivory (pages 480–494)

Kristin Laluk and Tesfaye Mengiste


Wall architecture with high porosity is established at the tip and maintained in growing pollen tubes of Nicotiana tabacum (pages 495–506)

Jan Derksen, Geert-Jan Janssen, Mieke Wolters-Arts, Irene Lichtscheidl, Wolfram Adlassnig, Miroslav Ovecka, Fiona Doris and Martin Steer


The glutaredoxin ATGRXS13 is required to facilitate Botrytis cinerea infection of Arabidopsis thaliana plants (pages 507–519)

Sylvain La Camera, Floriane L’Haridon, Jérémy Astier, Mark Zander, Eliane Abou-Mansour, Gonzague Page, Corinna Thurow, David Wendehenne, Christiane Gatz, Jean-Pierre Métraux and Olivier Lamotte


Cell autonomous and cell-type specific circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis (pages 520–531)

Esther Yakir, Miriam Hassidim, Naomi Melamed-Book, Dror Hilman, Ido Kron and Rachel M. Green


BnaC.Tic40, a plastid inner membrane translocon originating from Brassica oleracea, is essential for tapetal function and microspore development in Brassica napus (pages 532–545)

Xiaoling Dun, Zhengfu Zhou, Shengqian Xia, Jing Wen, Bin Yi, Jinxiong Shen, Chaozhi Ma, Jinxing Tu and Tingdong Fu


Matrix solubilization and cell wall weakening by ß-expansin (group-1 allergen) from maize pollen (pages 546–559)

Akira Tabuchi, Lian-Chao Li and Daniel J. Cosgrove


TECHNICAL ADVANCE


High-throughput protoplast transactivation (PTA) system for the analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factor function (pages 560–569)

Nora Wehner, Laura Hartmann, Andrea Ehlert, Stefan Böttner, Luis Onate-Sánchez and Wolfgang Dröge-Laser


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