Journal de Botanique - 56, 2011

Contents:

 G. PARADIS & N. GEORGES
Description d'une petite station d'Eclipta prostrata (L.) L. (Asteraceae) en bord de route a Ajaccio (Corse)

 P. AMBLARD, P. MEPPIEL & F. TOURNAY
Polystichum xwirtgenii H.Christ ex Hahne (Dryopteri­ daceae, Pteridophyta) : sa découverte en France par Émile Walter et son introduction au jardin bota nique du col de Saverne (Bas-Rhin)

 P. CHENE
Les Études du genre Digitalis 3 : les especes de la section Isoplexis

 Y. PETIT-BERGHEM & B. DE FOUCAULT
Caractérisation écologique du couvert végétal du Centre de stockage de la Manche (Normandie)

 F. BIORET, J.-J. LAZARE & J.-M. GÉHU
Évaluation patrimoniale et vulnérabilité des associations végétales du littoral atlantique français

 G. THÉBAUD
Contribution au prodrome des végétations de France : les Oxycocco - Sphagnetea Braun-Bianq. & Tüxen ex V.Westh., Dijk, Paschier & Sissingh 1946 (tourbieres acides euro-sibériennes)

 ANONYME
Proces verbal de la séance du 23 septembre 2011

 ANONYME
Index des nouveautés nomenclaturales 2011

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Plant Diversity and Evolution - 128 (3-4), 2010

Contents:

Progress in Apiales research - a multidisciplinary approach Part II


Structural traits of some species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) and their significance for constructing the generic system

Konstantinova, Alexandra I.; Yembaturova, Elena Yu.


The family Myodocarpaceae: looking at the system from the standpoint of comparative carpology

Konstantinova, Alexandra I.; Yembaturova, Elena Yu.


The taxonomic significance of fruit morphology and anatomy in the genus Alepidea delaroche (Apiaceae, subfamily Saniculoideae)

Yembaturova, Elena Yu.; van Wyk, Ben-Erik; Tilney, Patricia M.; Winter, Pieter J.D.


Classification and evolution of the genus Eryngium L. (Apiaceae-Saniculoideae): results of fruit anatomical and petal morphological studies

Wörz, Arno; Diekmann, Heike


Morphological evidence of polyphyletic nature of traditional Carum (Apiaceae Apioideae)

Zakharova, Ekaterina A.


Survey of the leaf anatomy of Araliaceae and some related taxa

Ostroumova, Tatiana A.; Oskolski, Alexei A.


Leaf Typology in the subfamily Apioideae (Apiaceae)

Naumov, Sergey Yu.


Survey of the bark anatomy of Araliaceae and related taxa

Kotina, Ekaterina; Oskolski, Alexei A.


Comparative bark anatomy of Bursaria, Hymenosporum and Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae)

Nilova, Maya; Oskolski, Alexei A.


Wood anatomy of Bupleurum L. (Apioideae, Apiaceae) in relation to habit, phylogenetic relationships, and infrageneric taxonomy

Stepanova, Anna V.; Oskolski, Alexei A.


Conclusive remarks subsequent to the pluridisciplinary monograph of the Umbelliferae of France

Reduron, Jean-Pierre


Current knowledge of Umbelliferae in the Arabian Peninsula preparation for a floristic treatment

Knees, Sabina; Miller, Anthony; Alfarhan, Ahmed; Watson, Mark


Distribution of the Umbelliferae in Middle Asia and Kazakhstan

Kljuykov, Eugene; Ukrainskaja, Uljana


Schefflera (Araliaceae): taxonomic history, overview and progress

Frodin, David G.; Lowry II, Porter P.; Plunkett, Gregory M.

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Botanical Studies - 53 (1), 2012

Contents:

    
Katelyn B. SHORTT and Steven M. VAMOSI
A review of the biology of the weedy Siberian peashrub, Caragana arborescens, with an emphasis on its potential effects in North America

Ya-Han DAI, Chich-Yu HUANG, Lisa WEN, Dey-Chyi SHEU, and Chi-Tsai LIN
Lemon ascorbate peroxidase: cDNA cloning and biochemical characterization

Chun-Hung LIN, Jia-Yuan HUANG, and Long-Fang O. CHEN
Cloning the broccoli HMG-I/Y gene as an endogenous reference for transgene copy number determinations using real-time PCR
   
Min-Lang CHANG, Nan-Ying CHEN, Li-Jen LIAO, Chung-Lung CHO, and Zin-Huang LIU
Effect of cadmium on peroxidase isozyme activity in roots of two Oryza sativa cultivars
   
Min-Lang CHANG, Li-Jen LIAO, Jia-Hong LIN, Zin-Huang LIU, Yuan-Ting HSU, and Tse-Min LEE
Modulation of antioxidant defense system and NADPH oxidase in Pluchea indica leaves by water deficit stress

Yu-Ling HO, Shyh-Shyun HUANG, Jeng-Shyan DENG, Yaw-Huei LIN, Yuan-Shiun CHANG, and Guan-Jhong HUANG
In vitro antioxidant properties and total phenolic contents of wetland medicinal plants in Taiwan
   
Idioleidys ALVAREZ, Ofelia SAM, Inés REYNALDO, Pilar TESTILLANO, María del CARMEN RISUENO, and Marta ARIAS
Morphological and cellular changes in rice roots (Oryza sativa L.) caused by Al stress
   
Jhy-Gong WANG and Hsu-Liang HSIEH
Induction of tomato Jasmonate-Resistant 1-Like 1 gene expression can delay the colonization of Ralstonia solanacearum in transgenic tomato
   
Matt GEISLER, David J. GIBSON, Kenneth J. LINDSEY, Katherine MILLAR, and Andrew J. WOOD
Upregulation of photosynthesis genes, and downregulation of stress defense genes, is the response of Arabidopsis thaliana shoots to intraspecific competition
   
Yung-I LEE and Edward C. YEUNG
Embryology of the lady’s slipper orchid, Paphiopedilum delenatii: Ovule development
   
Jinsoon PARK, Jong Seong KHIM, Taisuke OHTSUKA, Hiroyuki ARAKI, Andrzej WITKOWSKI, and Chul-Hwan KOH
Diatom assemblages on Nanaura mudflat, Ariake Sea, Japan: with reference to the biogeography of marine benthic diatoms in Northeast Asia
   
Shih-Yuan CHEN, Li-Ying PAN, Min-Jhe HONG, and An-Chin LEE
The effects of temperature on the growth of and ammonia uptake by marine microalgae
   
Sheng-Hua WU, Yu-Cheng DAI, Tsutomu HATTORI, Tu-Wen YU, Dong-Mei WANG, Erast PARMASTO, Heng-Yuan CHANG, and Siang-Yun SHIH
Species clarification for the medicinally valuable ‘sanghuang’ mushroom
   
Qing-Yan LI, Wei GUO, Wen-Bo LIAO, James A. MACKLIN, and Jian-Hua LI
Generic limits of Pyrinae: Insights from nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences
   
Wei-Bin XU, Bo PAN, Yan LIU, Ching-I PENG, and Kuo-Fang CHUNG
Two new species, Primulina multifida and P. pseudomollifolia (Gesneriaceae), from karst caves in Guangxi, China
   
Instructions to Authors
 
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Biology Bulletin - 38 (10)

Contents:


    Adaptation of the flora to anthropogenic impact in the southern Volga Upland

    M. A. Berezutsky
        

    Role of herbaceous plant communities in biogenic cycles of chemical elements

    V. S. Bezel’ and T. V. Zhuikova
        

    Distribution and survival of the social vole in a clayey semidesert of the Trans-Volga region

    A. V. Bykov, N. P. Shabanova and O. A. Bukhareva
        

    Biphasic dependence of some ecomorphological and biochemical parameters of the birch leaf plate on the level of motor traffic pollution

    E. A. Erofeeva, V. S. Sukhov and M. M. Naumova
        

    Biological features of xylotrophic basidiomycete species from the right-bank Volga forest-steppe in nature and in culture

    G. V. Il’ina and Yu. S. Lykov
        

    Changes in resilience to fire disturbance in lowland pine forest ecosystems

    A. V. Konstantinov
       

    The current state of the Demoiselle crane population in the Transural steppe

    V. A. Korovin
        

    Plankton and ecological status of watercourses in territories of various types (an example of Voronezh oblast)

    A. V. Krylov, A. V. Romanenko, D. V. Trankvilevsky, M. I. Chubirko and J. I. Stepkin
        

    Elements of nitrogen cycle in landscapes of the Northern Caspian Lowland

    N. Yu. Kulakova and B. D. Abaturov
        

    The diet composition of the social vole at the beginning stage of colonization of a zonal plain in a clayey semidesert of the Trans-Volga region

    K. O. Larionov, A. V. Bykov, A. A. Vyshivkin and M. B. Shadrina
        

    Analysis of the microfabrics of reclaimed solonetzes at the Dzhanybek Research Station for evaluation of their ecological status

    M. P. Lebedeva and M. L. Sizemskaya
        

    Testate amoebae community structure in the moss biotopes of streams

    Yu. A. Mazei and O. I. Belyakova
        

    Dynamics of the mammal fauna in steppes of the Volga-Ural interfluve over the past century

    M. L. Oparin, O. S. Oparina, A. N. Matrosov and A. A. Kuznetsov
        

    Characteristics of plant communities containing St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) in the Saratov Region

    V. M. Parkhomenko and A. S. Kashin
        

    Climate-dependent changes in herbaceous vegetation on solonchakous solonetzes of the Northern Caspian Lowland

    M. K. Sapanov and M. L. Sizemskaya
        

    Industrial wetlands as refuges for bird biodiversity conservation in the forest-steppe zone

    S. N. Spiridonov, V. S. Sarychev, A. Yu. Okolelov, G. N. Isakov and E. A. Sukharev
        

    Landscape-ecological assessment of bird communities in the middle Aldan valley

    L. G. Vartapetov, N. N. Egorov and V. V. Okoneshnikov
       

    Changes in the species composition and trophic structure of soil macrofauna upon establishment of forest plantations in the Caspian semidesert

    T. S. Vsevolodova-Perel, M. L. Sizemskaya and A. V. Kolesnikov
        

    Diversity and structure of macrozoobenthic communities in the highly mineralized Khara River (territory adjacent to Lake Elton)

    T. D. Zinchenko, L. V. Golovatjuk, L. A. Vykhristjuk and V. K. Shitikov
        

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American Journal of Botany 99 (5), 2012

Biogeosciences - 9 (2), 2012

Contents:

Carbon dioxide emissions from an Acacia plantation on peatland in Sumatra, Indonesia
J. Jauhiainen, A. Hooijer, and S. E. Page

Sensitivity analysis of the GEMS soil organic carbon model to land cover land use classification uncertainties under different climate scenarios in senegal
A. M. Dieye, D. P. Roy, N. P. Hanan, S. Liu, M. Hansen, and A. Touré

Estimating the near-surface permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming
T. Schneider von Deimling, M. Meinshausen, A. Levermann, V. Huber, K. Frieler, D. M. Lawrence, and V. Brovkin

A comparison of biogenic iron quotas during a diatom spring bloom using multiple approaches
A. L. King, S. A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, P. W. Boyd, B. S. Twining, S. W. Wilhelm, C. Breene, M. J. Ellwood, and D. A. Hutchins

Chemodiversity of a Scots pine stand and implications for terpene air concentrations
J. Bäck, J. Aalto, M. Henriksson, H. Hakola, Q. He, and M. Boy

Detection of open water dynamics with ENVISAT ASAR in support of land surface modelling at high latitudes
A. Bartsch, A. M. Trofaier, G. Hayman, D. Sabel, S. Schlaffer, D. B. Clark, and E. Blyth

Corrigendum to "Effects of climate variability and functional changes on the interannual variation of the carbon balance in a temperate deciduous forest" published in Biogeosciences, 9, 13–28, 2012
J. Wu, L. van der Linden, G. Lasslop, N. Carvalhais, K. Pilegaard, C. Beier, and A. Ibrom

Latitudinal differences in the amplitude of the OAE-2 carbon isotopic excursion: pCO2 and paleo productivity
E. C. van Bentum, G.-J. Reichart, A. Forster, and J. S. Sinninghe Damsté

Analyzing precipitationsheds to understand the vulnerability of rainfall dependent regions
P. W. Keys, R. J. van der Ent, L. J. Gordon, H. Hoff, R. Nikoli, and H. H. G. Savenije

The metabolic response of pteropods to acidification reflects natural CO2-exposure in oxygen minimum zones
A. E. Maas, K. F. Wishner, and B. A. Seibel

Use of a process-based model for assessing the methane budgets of global terrestrial ecosystems and evaluation of uncertainty
A. Ito and M. Inatomi

Coordination of physiological and structural traits in Amazon forest trees
S. Patino, N. M. Fyllas, T. R. Baker, R. Paiva, C. A. Quesada, A. J. B. Santos, M. Schwarz, H. ter Steege, O. L. Phillips, and J. Lloyd

Coupling of fog and marine microbial content in the near-shore coastal environment
M. E. Dueker, G. D. O'Mullan, K. C. Weathers, A. R. Juhl, and M. Uriarte

Increases in the abundance of microbial genes encoding halotolerance and photosynthesis along a sediment salinity gradient
T. C. Jeffries, J. R. Seymour, K. Newton, R. J. Smith, L. Seuront, and J. G. Mitchell

Gas properties of winter lake ice in Northern Sweden: implication for carbon gas release
T. Boereboom, M. Depoorter, S. Coppens, and J.-L. Tison

Responses of N2O and CH4 fluxes to fertilizer nitrogen addition rates in an irrigated wheat-maize cropping system in northern China
C. Liu, K. Wang, and X. Zheng

Corrigendum to "Responses of N2O and CH4 fluxes to fertilizer nitrogen addition rates in an irrigated wheat-maize cropping system in northern China" published in Biogeosciences, 9, 839–850, 2012
C. Liu, K. Wang, and X. Zheng

Free and protected soil organic carbon dynamics respond differently to abandonment of mountain grassland
S. Meyer, J. Leifeld, M. Bahn, and J. Fuhrer

Species-specific trajectories of nitrogen isotopes in Indiana hardwood forests, USA
K. K. McLauchlan and J. M. Craine
   

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Australian Journal of Botany - 59 (7), 2011

Contents:

   
Spatial distribution of species richness and endemism of the genus Acacia in Australia

Carlos E. González-Orozco, Shawn W. Laffan and Joseph T. Miller


Detecting karrikinolide responses in seeds of the Poaceae

Rowena L. Long, Jason C. Stevens, Erin M. Griffiths, Markus Adamek, Stephen B. Powles and David J. Merritt


Traits associated with drought survival in three Australian tropical rainforest seedlings

Jillian M. Deines, Jessica J. Hellmann and Timothy J. Curran


Cycads show no stomatal-density and index response to elevated carbon dioxide and subambient oxygen

Matthew Haworth, Annmarie Fitzgerald and Jennifer C. McElwain


Restore and sequester: estimating biomass in native Australian woodland ecosystems for their carbon-funded restoration

J. H. Jonson and D. Freudenberger


The impact of harvesting native forests on vegetation and soil C stocks, and soil CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes

K. L. Page, R. C. Dalal and R. J. Raison


Individual plant species responses to phosphorus and livestock grazing

J. Dorrough, S. McIntyre and M. P. Scroggie


Cytotoxicity of essential oils from two species of Heterothalamus (Asteraceae)

Valeri Schmidt-Silva, Ângela Pawlowski, Eliane Kaltchuk dos Santos, Cláudia Alcaraz Zini and Geraldo L. G. Soares


The ecological relationships and demography of restricted ironstone endemic plant species: implications for conservation

Colin J. Yates, Neil Gibson, Neil E. Pettit, Rebecca Dillon and Russell Palmer

      
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Asklepios - 112, 2011 (and Hoya desvoeuxensis)

Contents:

Editorial   
Alan Butler

Caralluma europaea on Lampedusa Island   
P.Zito & M.Sajeva

Caralluma pauciflora, an endemic Caralluma taxon from India   
Soumen Aditya

Further notes on Caralluma adscendens v. carinata and v. geniculata   
Soumen Aditya

New species of Hoya from Fiji - Hoya desvoeuxensis   
Ted Green, Dale Kloppenburg

The real Edithcolea in Bakersfield   
Bruce Hargreaves

Notes on some Edible, Medicinal and Magical Xerophytic, Tuberous or Succulent Asclepiads and a Firework (part two)   
Pat Collins
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Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection - 44 (1), 2011

Contents:

Effects of aqueous extracts of some plant species against Fusarium solani and Rhizoctonia solani in Phaseolus vulgaris plants
 Abd-El-Khair, H.; El-Gamal Nadia, G.

Biochemical events involved in downy mildew disease resistance in pearl millet in relation to H+-ATPase
 Madhu, D.; Rekha, H. S.; Shylaja, M. D.; Prakash, H. S.; Shetty, H. Shekar

Field investigation of pomegranate fruit worms in Taif and laboratory evaluation of Bacillus thuringiensis against Ectomyelois ceratoniae
 Elsayed, G.; Bazaid, S. A.

Preliminary studies on the biology of Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) as a pest of rose in India
 Duraimurugan, P.; Jagadish, A.

In vitro evaluation of the efficacy of plant and callus extracts of Cardiospermum halicacabum L. on important phytopathogenic fungi
 Girish, H. V.; Sudarshana, M. S.; Satish, S.

Lethal and pathogenic effects of Beauveria bassiana and Lecanicillium lecanii on the adult and nymph of Aphis craccivora Koch
 Abd El-Salam, A.M.E.; El-Hawary, F. M. A.

Phylogenetic relationships of sheath diseases of rice in Myanmar
 Aye, Seint San; Matsumoto, Masaru

Identification and pathogenicity of Rhizoctonia species isolated from bean and soybean plants in Samsun, Turkey
 Erper, Ismail; Ozkoc, Ibrahim; Karaca, Gursel Hatat

Temperature influence on biology, thermal requirement and life table of the predatory mites Agistemus exsertus Gonzalez and Phytoseius plumifer (Can. & Fanz.) reared on Tetranychus urticae Koch
 Rasmy, Aly; Osman, M. A.; Abou-Elella, G. M.

Development of Dactylaria eudermata Drechsler a predaceous fungi in Meloidogyne incognita
 Singh, R. K.

Occurrence of root-knot disease in green onion in Allahabad
 Simon, Sobita; Singh, R. K.

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Applied Vegetation Science - 15 (2), 2012

Contents:


    Species introduction – a major topic in vegetation restoration (pages 161–165)

    Norbert Hölzel, Elise Buisson and Thierry Dutoit

  
    Liming induces changes in the macrophyte vegetation of Norwegian softwater lakes by mitigating carbon limitation: results from a field experiment (pages 166–174)

    Esther C.H.E.T. Lucassen, Alfons J.P. Smolders and Jan G.M. Roelofs

   
    Irrigation, organic fertilization and species successional stage modulate the response of woody seedlings to herbaceous competition in a semi-arid quarry restoration (pages 175–186)

    Santiago Soliveres, Jorge Monerris and Jordi Cortina

  
    Vegetation recovery of gypsum quarries: short-term sowing response to different soil treatments (pages 187–197)

    Miguel Ballesteros, Eva M. Canadas, Ana Foronda, Emilia Fernández-Ondono, Julio Penas and Juan Lorite

 
    Sowing of low and high diversity seed mixtures in ecological restoration of surface mined-land (pages 198–207)

    Anita Kirmer, Annett Baasch and Sabine Tischew

 
    Restoration potential of the persistent soil seed bank in successional calcareous (alvar) grasslands in Estonia (pages 208–218)

    Rein Kalamees, Kersti Püssa, Kristjan Zobel and Martin Zobel

  
    Biomass accumulation during reed encroachment reduces efficiency of restoration of Baltic coastal grasslands (pages 219–230)

    Marek Sammul, Karin Kauer and Tiina Köster

 
    Restoration of flooded meadows in Estonia – vegetation changes and management indicators (pages 231–244)

    Jaak-Albert Metsoja, Lena Neuenkamp, Silvia Pihu, Kai Vellak, Jesse M. Kalwij and Martin Zobel

 
    Spontaneous restoration of target vegetation in old-fields in a central European landscape: a repeated analysis after three decades (pages 245–252)

    Alena Jírová, Alexandra Klaudisová and Karel Prach

   
    Regional seed mixtures for the re-creation of species-rich meadows in the White Carpathian Mountains: results of a 10-yr experiment (pages 253–263)

    Jonathan Mitchley, Ivana Jongepierová and Karel Fajmon

  
    Grassland restoration to conserve landscape-level biodiversity: a synthesis of early results from a large-scale project (pages 264–276)

    Szabolcs Lengyel, Katalin Varga, Beatrix Kosztyi, László Lontay, Eszter Déri, Péter Török and Béla Tóthmérész


    Using a two-phase sowing approach in restoration: sowing foundation species to restore, and subordinate species to evaluate restoration success (pages 277–289)

    Clémentine Coiffait-Gombault, Elise Buisson and Thierry Dutoit

  
    Enhancing plant biodiversity in species-poor grassland through plant material transfer – the impact of sward disturbance (pages 290–298)

    Ralf Schmiede, Annette Otte and Tobias W. Donath

   
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Annals of Botany - 109 (3), 2012

Contents:

ContentSnapshots

New perspectives on the evolution of plant mating systems
 Karron, Jeffrey D.; Ivey, Christopher T.; Mitchell, Randall J.; Whitehead, Michael R.; Peakall, Rod; Case, Andrea L.

How much better are females? The occurrence of female advantage, its proximal causes and its variation within and among gynodioecious species
 Dufay, Mathilde; Billard, Emmanuelle

Gender plasticity and sexual system stability in Wurmbea
 Vaughton, Glenda; Ramsey, Mike

Gynodioecy to dioecy: are we there yet?
 Spigler, Rachel B.; Ashman, Tia-Lynn

Functional characterization of gynodioecy in Fragaria vesca ssp. bracteata (Rosaceae)
 Li, Junmin; Koski, Matthew H.; Ashman, Tia-Lynn

The relative importance of reproductive assurance and automatic selection as hypotheses for the evolution of self-fertilization
 Busch, Jeremiah W.; Delph, Lynda F.

Effects of floral display size on male and female reproductive success in Mimulus ringens
 Karron, Jeffrey D.; Mitchell, Randall J.

Dichogamy correlates with outcrossing rate and defines the selfing syndrome in the mixed-mating genus Collinsia
 Kalisz, Susan; Randle, April; Chaiffetz, David; Faigeles, Melisa; Butera, Aileen; Beight, Craig

Tests for the joint evolution of mating system and drought escape in Mimulus
 Ivey, Christopher T.; Carr, David E.

Broad geographic covariation between floral traits and the mating system in Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia (Onagraceae): multiple stable mixed mating systems across the species' range?
 Dart, Sara R.; Samis, Karen E.; Austen, Emily; Eckert, Christopher G.

Mating system shifts on the trailing edge
 Levin, Donald A.

Variation in inbreeding depression and plasticity across native and non-native field environments
 Murren, C. J.; Dudash, M. R.

Clarifying Baker's Law
 Cheptou, P.-O.

Non-additive effects of pollen limitation and self-incompatibility reduce plant reproductive success and population viability
 Young, Andrew G.; Broadhurst, Linda M.; Thrall, Peter H.

Unusual heterostyly: style dimorphism and self-incompatibility are not tightly associated in Lithodora and Glandora (Boraginaceae)
 Ferrero, V.; Arroyo, J.; Castro, S.; Navarro, L.

The natural history of pollination and mating in bird-pollinated Babiana (Iridaceae)
 de Waal, Caroli; Anderson, Bruce; Barrett, Spencer C. H.

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Annals of Botany - 109 (1), 2012

Contents:

ContentSnapshots

Plant Cuttings
 Chaffey, Nigel

Graduate Prize Winner

Why people need plants
 Chaffey, Nigel

Fifty Plants that changed the course of history
 Chaffey, Nigel

Seeds of Amazonian plants
 Ferraz, Isolde Dorothea Kossmann

Elusive but not hypothetical: axillary meristems in Wollemia nobilis
 Burrows, Geoffrey E.

Axillary meristems in the Wollemi pine: a response to Geoffrey E. Burrows
 Tomlinson, P. B.; Huggett, Brett A.

Abscisic acid and CO2 signalling via calcium sensitivity priming in guard cells, new CDPK mutant phenotypes and a method for improved resolution of stomatal stimulus-response analyses
 Hubbard, Katharine E.; Siegel, Robert S.; Valerio, Gabriel; Brandt, Benjamin; Schroeder, Julian I.

The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions
 te Beest, Mariska; Le Roux, Johannes J.; Richardson, David M.; Brysting, Anne K.; Suda, Jan; Kubešová, Magdalena; Pyšek, Petr

Quite a few reasons for calling carnivores `the most wonderful plants in the world'
 Król, Elżbieta; Płachno, Bartosz J.; Adamec, Lubomír; Stolarz, Maria; Dziubińska, Halina; Trębacz, Kazimierz

Genome size and DNA base composition of geophytes: the mirror of phenology and ecology?
 Veselý, Pavel; Bureš, Petr; Šmarda, Petr; Pavlíček, Tomáš

Functional morphology and wasp pollination of two South American asclepiads (Asclepiadoideae-Apocynaceae)
 Wiemer, A. P.; Sérsic, A. N.; Marino, S.; Simoes, A. O.; Cocucci, A. A.

Inferences of biogeographical histories within subfamily Hyacinthoideae using S-DIVA and Bayesian binary MCMC analysis implemented in RASP (Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies)
 Ali, Syed Shujait; Yu, Yan; Pfosser, Martin; Wetschnig, Wolfgang

Phylogeny of Oedogoniales, Chaetophorales and Chaetopeltidales (Chlorophyceae): inferences from sequence-structure analysis of ITS2
 Buchheim, Mark A.; Sutherland, Danica M.; Schleicher, Tina; Förster, Frank; Wolf, Matthias

Occidental diffusion of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) 500-1300 CE: two routes to Europe
 Paris, Harry S.; Daunay, Marie-Christine; Janick, Jules

An extinct Eocene taxon of the daisy family (Asteraceae): evolutionary, ecological and biogeographical implications
 Barreda, Viviana D.; Palazzesi, Luis; Katinas, Liliana; Crisci, Jorge V.; Tellería, María C.; Bremer, Kare; Passala, Mauro G.; Bechis, Florencia; Corsolini, Rodolfo

A comparative survey of floral characters in Capanemia Barb. Rodr. (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae)
 Buzatto, Cristiano Roberto; Davies, Kevin L.; Singer, Rodrigo B.; Pires dos Santos, Rinaldo; van den Berg, Cássio

Ant species identity mediates reproductive traits and allocation in an ant-garden bromeliad
 Leroy, Céline; Corbara, Bruno; Pélozuelo, Laurent; Carrias, Jean-François; Dejean, Alain; Céréghino, Régis

Insects, birds and lizards as pollinators of the largest-flowered Scrophularia of Europe and Macaronesia
 Ortega-Olivencia, Ana; Rodríguez-Riano, Tomás; Pérez-Bote, José L.; López, Josefa; Mayo, Carlos; Valtuena, Francisco J.; Navarro-Pérez, Marisa

Induced polyploidy dramatically increases the size and alters the shape of fruit in Actinidia chinensis
 Wu, Jin-Hu; Ferguson, A. Ross; Murray, Brian G.; Jia, Yilin; Datson, Paul M.; Zhang, Jingli

Seed ultrastructure and water absorption pathway of the root-parasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca (Orobanchaceae)
 Joel, Daniel M.; Bar, Hilla; Mayer, Alfred M.; Plakhine, Dina; Ziadne, Hammam; Westwood, James H.; Welbaum, Gregory E.

Relationship between leaf traits and fire-response strategies in shrub species of a mountainous region of south-eastern Australia
 Vivian, Lyndsey M.; Cary, Geoffrey J.

Natural variation in germination responses of Arabidopsis to seasonal cues and their associated physiological mechanisms
 Barua, Deepak; Butler, Colleen; Tisdale, Tracy E.; Donohue, Kathleen

Biased morph ratios and skewed mating success contribute to loss of genetic diversity in the distylous Pulmonaria officinalis
 Meeus, Sofie; Honnay, Olivier; Brys, Rein; Jacquemyn, Hans

Effects of defoliation and shading on the physiological cost of reproduction in silky locoweed Oxytropis sericea
 Ida, Takashi Y.; Harder, Lawrence D.; Kudo, Gaku

Evolution and ecology meet molecular genetics: adaptive phenotypic plasticity in two isolated Negev desert populations of Acacia raddiana at either end of a rainfall gradient
 Ward, David; Shrestha, Madan K.; Golan-Goldhirsh, Avi

Genome size and base composition variation in natural and experimental Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) hybrids
 Marques, Isabel; Nieto Feliner, Gonzalo; Martins-Louçao, Maria Amélia; Fuertes Aguilar, Javier

Germination responses to temperature and water potential in Jatropha curcas seeds: a hydrotime model explains the difference between dormancy expression and dormancy induction at different incubation temperatures
 Windauer, Liliana B.; Martinez, J.; Rapoport, D.; Wassner, D.; Benech-Arnold, Roberto

Identification of soybean purple acid phosphatase genes and their expression responses to phosphorus availability and symbiosis
 Li, Chengchen; Gui, Shunhua; Yang, Tao; Walk, Thomas; Wang, Xiurong; Liao, Hong

Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traits
 Aulen, Maurice; Shipley, Bill; Bradley, Robert

Soil seed bank recovery occurs more rapidly than expected in semi-arid Mediterranean gypsum vegetation
 Olano, J. M.; Caballero, I.; Escudero, A.

Totomatix: a novel automatic set-up to control diurnal, diel and long-term plant nitrate nutrition
 Adamowicz, Stéphane; Le Bot, Jacques; Huanosto Magana, Ruth; Fabre, José

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (75-76), 2011

African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (75), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles


GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


Jinsong Chen, Conglin Huang, Xiuhai Zhang, Rong Yu and Zhongyi Wu

Detection of herbicide-resistant maize by using loop-mediated isothermal amplification of the pat selectable marker gene


Qian Wang, Yucheng Zhang, Min Gao, Chen Jiao and Xiping Wang

Identification and expression analysis of a pathogen-responsive PR-1 gene from Chinese wild Vitis quinquangularis


Musa Hasan Abu Zarga and Mukaram Shikara

NADP+- dependent isocritrate dehydrogenase from human kidney mitochondria


Avinash Pandey, Amit Kumar and Ramya P

Genetic diversity in green gram accessions as revealed by STMS markers


Yongxin Liu, Guixing Wang, Yi Liu, Jilun Hou, Yufen Wang, Fei Si, Zhaohui Sun, Xiaoyan Zhang and Haijin Liu

Production and verification of heterozygous clones in Japanese flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus by microsatellite marker


Ahmed Nagib Sharaf, Ahmed Gaber, Abdelhadi Abdallah Abdelhadi Abdelshafy Ibrahim Ragab and Walid Ahmed Korani

Induction, characterization and genetic analysis of Aspergillus flavus resistant mutants in Arachis hypogaea


Zhiyong Wang, Li Liao, Xuejun Yuan, Aigui Guo and Jianxiu Liu

Genetic relationships of bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon) from different countries revealed by sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) analysis
 

PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

 
Hatira Taşkin, Saadet Büyükalaca, Davut Keleş and Ercan Ekbiç

Induction of microspore-derived embryos by anther culture in selected pepper genotypes


Kalpana Sengar, R. S. Sengar and Sanjay Kumar Garg

The effect of in-vitro environmental conditions on some sugarcane varieties for micropropagation


Yousaf Jamal, Muhammad Shafi and Jehan Bakht

Effect of seed priming on growth and biochemical traits of wheat under saline conditions


Zhenming Zhang, Siming Song, Hailong Wu, Xinxiao Yu and Qian Zhang

Factors affecting soil erosion in Beijing mountain forestlands


Sureyya Altintas

Effects of prohexadione-calcium with three rates of phosphorus and chlormequat chloride on vegetative and generative growth of tomato


Özlem Tuncay

Relationships between nitrate, chlorophyll and chromaticity values inrocket salad and parsley


Sureyya Altintas

Effects of chlormequat chloride and different rates of prohexadione-calcium on seedling growth, flowering, fruit development and yield of tomato


Funda Eryilmaz Acikgoz

Mineral, vitamin C and crude protein contents in kale (Brassica oleraceae var. acephala) at different harvesting stages


Mahdi, Babaeian, Yasser, Esmaeilian, Abolfazl, Tavassoli and Mehdi, Javaheri

Interaction of micro and macro elements with manure on barley feed yield and soil nutrient content in Sistan region


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tong Bao, Tieheng Sun and Lina Sun

Low molecular weight organic acids in root exudates and cadmium accumulation in cadmium hyperaccumulator Solanum nigrum L. and non-hyperaccumulator Solanum lycopersicum L.


Tian-Nv Wang, Lei Lu, Guo-Fu Li, Jun Li, Teng-Fei Xu, Min Zhao

Decolorization of the azo dye reactive black 5 using laccase mediator system


Rafi Ullah, Jehan Bakht, Mohammad Shafi, Madiha Iqbal, Ayub Khan and Muhammad Saeed

Phyto-accumulation of heavy metals by sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) grown on contaminated soil


Zheng Zi-Cheng, LI Ting-Xuan, Xiao Guang-Li, Zhang Xi-Zhou, Yu Hai-Ying and Wang Yong-Dong

Mineral composition of dominant plant species growing in a phosphorus mining area


Oguz Kurdoglu and Başak Avcioglu Çokçalişkan

Assessing the effectiveness of protected area management in the Turkish Caucasus


Ali BÜLBÜL, Tugbanur ÖZEN and Gültekin TARCAN

Hydrogeochemical and hydrogeological investigations of thermal waters in the Alasehir-Kavaklidere area (Manisa-Turkey)


INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY

 
Shi-jun Yu, Ying Zhang, Chun-ru Li, Qian Zhang, Zhong-you Ma and Mei-zhen Fan

Optimization of ultrasonic extraction of mycelial polysaccharides from Paecilomyces hepiali using response surface methodology and its antioxidant activity


FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

 
Farid Bensalah, Asmaa Labtar, Christine Delorme and Pierre Renault

Occurrence, isolation and DNA identification of Streptococcus thermophilus involved in Algerian traditional butter ‘Smen’


FOOD TECHNOLOGY

 
Omojola, Moses O., Afolayan, Michael O., Adebiyi, Adedayo B., Orijajogun, Joyce O., Thomas, Sunday A. and Ihegwuagu, Nnemeka E.

Further physicochemical characterization of Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) Benth fruit pulp as a mineral supplement


Farzana Siddique, Kiran Sultan Khan, Asif Ahmad, Anwaar Ahmed, Muhammad Gulfraz and Feroza Hamid Wattoo

Development and optimization of sweet cream butter from buffaloes at cottage scale


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY


Margaret Oluwatoyin Sofidiya, Busola Oduwole, Elizabeth Bamgbade, Olukemi Odukoya and Sunday Adenekan

Nutritional composition and antioxidant activities of Curculigo pilosa (Hypoxidaceae) rhizome


Yun Liu, Junkai Wang, Yunjun Yan and Jiangchuan Li

Biocatalytic synthesis and antioxidant capacities of ascorbyl esters by Novozym 435 in tert-butanol system using different acyl donors


He Ying, Zhang Nian-zhang, Zhao Ping, Chu Yue-feng, Gao Peng-cheng, Zhang Jian-jun and Lu Zhong-xin

Improvement of specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the identification of Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Olayinka A. Aiyegoro and Sandra van Dyk

The antioxidant properties, cytotoxicity and monoamine oxidase inhibition abilities of the crude dichloromethane extract of Tarchonanthus camphoratus L. leaves


Saadia Shahzad Alam, Samreen Riaz and M. Waheed Akhtar

Effect of high dose thiamine therapy on activity and molecular aspects of transketolase in Type 2 diabetic patients


D. O. Awoniyi, Y. G. Aboua, J. L. Marnewick, S. S. du Plesis and N. L. Brooks

Protective effects of rooibos (Aspalathus linearis), green tea (Camellia sinensis) and commercial supplements on testicular tissue of oxidative stress-induced rats


BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Gong Cheng, Fangrong Ding, Yunping Dai and Ning Li

Targeting the human lysozyme gene on bovine ?s1-casein gene locus in fibroblasts


Yingchun Qi, Yaomei Ye and Manzhu Bao

Establishment of plant regeneration system from anther culture of Tagetes patula


Kuen-Chang Hsieh, Ming-Feng Kao, Tsong-Rong Jang, Wen-Lang Lin, Hsueh-Kuan Lu and Yu-Yawn Chen

Estimation of segmental fat free mass in Taiwanese elderly females by bioelectrical impedance analysis with new mathematical model


ANIMAL SCIENCE

 
Farjad Rafeie, Cyrus Amirinia, Ardeshir Nejati Javaremi, Seyed Ziaeddin Mirhoseini and Nour Amirmozafari

A study of patrilineal genetic diversity in Iranian indigenous horse breeds


Wang Hong, Zan LinSen, Cheng Gong, Wang HongBao and Fu ChangZhen

Molecular cloning, expression analysis and sequence prediction of CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta gene of Qinchuan cattle


Muhammad Naeem, Amina Zuberi, Abdus Salam, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Riaz-ul-Haq, Muhammad Khalid, Mudasra Mehreen, Muhammad Farhan Nasir, Saeed Akhtar Rasool and Abir Ishtiaq

Some morphometric relationships of hatchery reared male population of Oreochromis mossambicus from Pakistan


Mingyan Shi, Xue Gao, Hongyan Ren, Zhengrong Yuan, Huiguang Wu, Jiao Li, Lupei Zhang, Huijiang Gao, Junya Li and Shangzhong Xu

Association analysis of CAPN1 gene variants with carcass and meat quality traits in Chinese native cattle


Navid Mogadam and Aidin Azizpour

Ameliorative effect of glucomannan-containing yeast product (Mycosorb) and sodium bentonite on performance and antibody titers against Newcastle disease in broilers during chronic aflatoxicosis


Maryam Royan, Goh Yong Meng, Fauziah Othman, Awis Qurni Sazili and Bahman Navidshad

Effects of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), n-3 and n-6 fatty acids on performance and carcass traits of broiler chickens

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (76), 2011


Contents:

Review

 
Suchitra Muenthaisong, Andras Dinnyes and Tshimangadzo Lucky Nedambale

Review of somatic cell nuclear transfer in pig


Research Articles

 
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

 
F. Ebrahimi, G. Mohammadi-Nejad, A. Baghizadeh and M. Abdolinejad

Genetic diversity evaluation of rapeseed genotypes (Brassica napus L.) based on phenotypic traits and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers


Gerald Otti, Ayodele Fakoya, Ikpan Andrew and Melaku Gedil

Development of genomic tools for verification of hybrids and selfed progenies in cassava (Manihot esculenta)


Ping Cao, Jing Sun, Peng Zhao, Heng Liu and Guochang Zheng

A new putative plasmodesmata-associated protein, At1g19190, in Arabidopsis


Jiali Dong, Yunyun Jiang, Rongjun Chen, Zhengjun Xu and Xiaoling Gao

Isolation of a novel xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (OsXET9) gene from rice and analysis of the response of this gene to abiotic stresses


Sun, Y. L., Wang, D., Lee, H. B., Park, W. G., Kwon, O. W. and Hong, S. K.,

Phylogeny of Korean Hornbeam (Carpinus turczaninovii) based on nuclear ribosomal ITS sequence


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

 
Liqing Du, Hui Zeng, Minghong Zou, Hanzhou Zhang, Lianfang Luo and Chaozhong Lu

Characters analysis of the Macadamia cv. Ikaika (333) germplasm resource


JIN Xiao-Ming, AI Lin, LIU Ji-Dong and LU Xin-Shi

The dynamics of age structures on Agropyron michnoi and Leymus chinensis in community with two dominant species populations


Süleyman Korkut

Physical and mechanical properties and the use of lesser-known native Silver Lime (Tilia argentea Desf.) wood from Western Turkey


Li Xia, Wang Chao and Ren Chenggang

Effects of 1-butanol, neomycin and calcium on the photosynthetic characteristics of pepc transgenic rice


Maheshwari .R. Bhadragoudar and Chandrashekhar .G. Patil

Assessment of genetic diversity among Capsicum annuum L. genotypes using RAPD markers


Agathar Kamota, Pardon Muchaonyerwa and Pearson N. S. Mnkeni

Effects of ensiling of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) maize (MON810) on degradation of the crystal 1Ab (Cry1Ab) protein and compositional quality of silage


Ruo-Fei Yang, Wan-Chen Li, Jing He, Shu-Feng Zhou, Yue-Hui She and Feng-Ling Fu

Inducement and identification of an endosperm mutant in maize


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Yanling Li, Zhijun Gong and Ji Shen

Diatom distribution in the surficial sediments of Lake Fuxian, Yunnan Plateau, China


Nannan Zhang, Yawen Fan and Yixin Liu

Relationship between diatom communities and environmental conditions at Honghe wetland, China


INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY

 
Jinpeng Wang, Xuexia Ji, Yuxiang Bai, Zhengyu Jin1, Xueming Xu and Yin Li

Effects of fermentation conditions on the production of 4-?-glucanotransferase from recombinant Escherichia coli


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY

 
Saleh A. Mohamed, Azza M. Abdel-Aty, Mohamed Belal Hamed, Mohamed O. El-Badry and Afaf S. Fahmy

Ficus sycomorus latex: A thermostable peroxidase


Horieh Saderi and Maryam Abbasi.

Evaluation of anti-adenovirus activity of some plants from Lamiaceae family grown in Iran in cell culture


Joseph M. K. Mulema, Patrick Okori and Katherine J. Denby

Proteomic analysis of the Arabidopsis thaliana-Botrytis cinerea interaction using two-dimensional liquid chromatography


Muhammad Rashid Khan, Azra Memon, Gul Nabi Khan, Maria Shabbir, Naima Saeed, Naseer Ali Shah, Jasia Bokhari, and Umbreen Rashid

Protective effects of Digera muricata (L.) Mart. against carbon tetrachloride induced oxidative stress in thyroid of rat


Chuanhui Fan, Zhanmin Liu and Lifeng Yao

Medium optimization for protopectinase production by batch culture of Aspergillus terreus


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Tao Kong, Yusen Jia, Jingzhe Yang, Xin Wang, Chunsong Jia and Limin Liao

Down-regulation of Notch-1 by ?-secretase inhibitor suppress the proliferation and migration of prostate cancer cells


Ying Yang, Bo Yu, Yuan Gao and Guiping Wu

Atorvastatin reverses the effects of interleukin-1ß (IL-1ß) on membrane potential in cultured rat aorta smooth muscle cells by activating big conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels (BK) and scavenging hydrogen dioxide


Parnian Alizadeh Oskoee, Elmira Jafari Navimipour, Siavash Savadi Oskoee, Mahmoud Bahari and Fatemeh Pournaghiazar

Effect of different adhesion strategies on push-out bond strength of fiber reinforced composite posts


ENTOMOLOGY

 
Miao Xie, Min-sheng You, Juan Cheng and Liette Vasseur

A proteomic analysis of short-term exposure to fipronil in larvae of Plutella xylostella


FISHERY SCIENCE


H. Raeisi, S. A. Hosseini, S. Y. Paighambari, S. A. A. Taghavi and R. Davoodi

Species composition and depth variation of cutlassfish (Trichiurus lepturus L. 1785) trawl bycatch in the fishing grounds of Bushehr waters, Persian Gulf


Hangjun Wang, Liyan Zhang, Xiaowan Chen and Shaoxiong Ding

Characterization of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for the Chinese black sleeper, Bostrychus sinensis


ANIMAL SCIENCE


Mukesh, Ruheena Javed, Uma Gaur, Han Jianlin and S. Sathyakumar

Cross-species applicability of chicken microsatellite markers for investigation of genetic diversity in Indian duck (Anas platyrhynchos) populations


Gholamreza Kavoosi

Zataria multiflora essential oil reduces diabetic damages in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats


Houda Bouraoui, Elena Vendramin, Andrea Squartini, and Mohamed-Laid Haddi

Taxonomical analysis of the suspended bacterial fraction in the dromedary rumen fluid

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African Journal of Ecology - 49 (4), 2011

Contents:

    Original articles


        Ficus sp. and Musanga leo-errerae: coexistent keystone fruits for chimpanzees in Kalinzu forest (pages 389–396)

        Grace Kagoro-Rugunda and Frederick I. B. Kayanja

      
        Assessment of woody species encroachment in the grasslands of Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia (pages 397–409)

        Hasan Yusuf, Anna C. Treydte, Sebsebe Demissew and Zerihun Woldu

       
        The role of farm structure on bird assemblages around a Kenyan tropical rainforest (pages 410–417)

        Nickson Erick Otieno, Nathan Gichuki, Nina Farwig and Samuel Kiboi

        
        Small mammal community structure in West Africa: a meta-analysis using null models (pages 418–430)

        Giovanni Amori and Luca Luiselli

       
        Beehive fences as effective deterrents for crop-raiding elephants: field trials in northern Kenya (pages 431–439)

        Lucy E. King, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Fritz Vollrath

        
        Ecological adaptation of the shea butter tree (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn.) along climatic gradient in Bénin, West Africa (pages 440–449)

        Romain Glele Kakai, T. Jean Didier Akpona, Achille E. Assogbadjo, Orou Gandé Gaoué, Sebastian Chakeredza, P. Césaire Gnangle, Guy Apollinaire Mensah and Brice Sinsin

        
        Long-term monitoring of large rainforest mammals in the Biosphere Reserve of Tai National Park, Côte d’Ivoire (pages 450–458)

        Bernd Hoppe-Dominik, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Gerhard Radl and Frauke Fischer

       
        Depth and temporal distribution of vagile fauna associated with Posidonia oceanica meadows in Cap Zebib, north-eastern Tunisian coastline (pages 459–470)

        Walid Belgacem, Habib Langar and Oum Kalthoum Ben Hassine

       
        Influence of environmental conditions on sex allocation in the black rhinoceros population of Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa (pages 471–480)

        Robert B. Weladji and Karine Laflamme-Mayer

       
        Understanding sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) habitats through diet analysis in Rushebeya-Kanyabaha wetland, Uganda (pages 481–489)

        Joseph Ndawula, Mnason Tweheyo, David M. Tumusiime and Gerald Eilu

        
        Patterns of plant functional traits in the biogeography of West African grasses (Poaceae) (pages 490–500)

        Marco Schmidt, Adjima Thiombiano, Alexander Zizka, Konstantin König, Ulrike Brunken and Georg Zizka

       
        Factors governing flower visitation patterns and quality of pollination services delivered by social and solitary bee species to coffee in central Uganda (pages 501–509)

        Théodore Munyuli

       
    Notes and records


        Vegetation composition of natural gaps in Moribane forest (Mozambique) (pages 510–514)

        José Monteiro, Stefaan Dondeyne, Bart Wursten, James Bannerman, Henrik Meilby and Almeida Sitoe

       
    Book review


        Biodiversity in South Africa (pages 515–516)

        K.-R. Grace

        
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Acta Botanica Hungarica - 53 (3-4), 2011

Contents:

Architekturmodelle und -Typen von GehÖlzen des Pannonischen Raumes

Architectural models and types of the woody plants in the Pannonian Basin
D. Bartha

Pharmacognostic studies on the leaf of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
I. Biswasi, A. Mukherjee

Dos Especies Nuevas en la Flora de Hispaniola
A. Borhidi

Transfer of the Mexican species of Psychotria subgen. Heteropsychotria to Palicourea based on morphological and molecular evidences
A. Borhidi

Estudios Sobre Rubiáceas Méxicanas XXXIII
Tres especies nuevas del género Deppea Schltdl. et Cham. (Hamelieae)
A. Borhidi

Estudios Sobre Rubiáceas Méxicanas XXXIV
Hoffmannia silviarum spec. nova y una variedad nueva (Hamelieae)
A. Borhidi

Estudios Sobre Rubiáceas Méxicanas XXXV
Chiococca motleyana nomen novum
A. Borhidi

UNA Rondeletia Nueva (Rubiaceae) en Sur-Oriente de Cuba
A. Borhidii, M. Fernández-Zequeira

Donnellyanthus (Rubiaceae, Rondeletieae), a new genus in the flora of Mexico and Meso-America
A. Borhidi, J. Daróki, Sz. Stranczinger

The liverwort Thysananthus Spathulistipus (Lejeuneaceae) long-lost in India rediscovered
A. E. D. Daniels, K. C. Kariyappai, P. Daniel

The Spiraea rock-heath communities in Hungary
T. Morschhauser, L. Erdősi A. Borhidi

Distribution of Solenopsora candicans (lichen-forming fungi, Catillariaceae) in Hungary
E. Farkas, A. Guttová, L. Lőkösi, K. Molnár

Statistical analysis of substrate investigations of terricolous Toninia species in Hungary
E. Farkas, K. Veresi, B. Czúcz

Leptogium ferax (lichen-forming fungi, Collemataceae) new to Hungary
A. Guttovái, L. Lőkös

Environmental impact assessment of particulate pollution on some fruit trees of the Kashmir Himalayas
F. A. Lone, M. A. Khani, H. R. Naik

Natural mass growth of Zygnema stellinum in El-Hykstep new city soil, Egypt
H. A. Monsouri, A. M. Shaaban

Influence of limnology on temporal changes in species diversity of aquatic vegetation in two tropical ponds (Kolkata, India)
G. Mukhopadhyay, S. C. Santrai, A. Dewanji

Population ecology of Allium ursinum, a space-monopolizing clonal plant
B. Oborny, Z. Botta-Dukát, K. Rudolfi, T. Morschhauser

Increased chilling tolerance and altered protein patterns in tomato seedlings following hardening of seeds or system in application
W. M. Shukryi, L. M. El-Otaby

Flowering phenology, floral display and reproductive success of Iris sibirica
R. Szőllősi, A. Medvegy, E. Benyes, A. Némethi, E. Mihalik

A study on biogeographical distribution of Turkish oak species and their relations with the Anatolian Diagonal
E. Uslu, Y. Bakişi, M. T. Babaç

Book reviews
E. Farkas, M. Duleba, Cs. Vadi, B. Bolla

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Acta Botanica Cassubica Monographiae - 4, 2011

Contents:

AGNIESZKA SADOWSKA
Flora roślin naczyniowych siedlisk torfowych Równiny Błot Przymorskich i Pradoliny Płutnicy (Pobrzeże Kaszubskie, Polska Północna) w warunkach antropopresji
The vascular plant flora of peatlands submitted to anthropic pressure in the Równina Błot Przymorskich microregion and the Płutnica river valley (the Pobrzeże Kaszubskie region, N Poland)


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Webbia - 65 (2), 2010

Contents:

VAN DER MAESEN L.J.G., Novitates Gabonenses 75: note on Platysepalum (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in Gabon.

RODDA M., SIMONSSON N., Hoya minutiflora sp. nov. (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae), a new small-flowered Hoya species, and taxonomic notes on Hoya ruscifolia Decaisne.

DUNKEL F.G., The Ranunculus auricomus L. complex (Ranunculaceae) in Northern Italy.

CUSMA VELARI T., FEOLI CHIAPELLA L., KOSOVEL V., Karyological Diversity of Adenocarpus DC. (Fabaceae-Cytiseae).

BALLELLI S., TARDELLA F.M., ORSOMANDO E., CATORCI A., The vascular flora of the “Altipiani di Colfiorito” (Umbria-Marches Apennines, Central Italy).

GAROFALO R., APRILE G.G., MINGO A., CATALANO I., RICCIARDI M., The Lichens of the Sorrento peninsula (Campania-Southern Italy).

BALDINI R.M., Review .

Index of new taxa.


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The Plant Journal - 68 (4-6), 2011

The Plant Journal - 68 (4), 2011


Contents:


FEATURED ARTICLE


Gibberellin partly mediates LANCEOLATE activity in tomato (pages 571–582)

Osnat Yanai, Eilon Shani, Dor Russ and Naomi Ori


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


An EAR-motif-containing ERF transcription factor affects herbivore-induced signaling, defense and resistance in rice (pages 583–596)

Jing Lu, Hongping Ju, Guoxin Zhou, Chuanshu Zhu, Matthias Erb, Xiaopeng Wang, Peng Wang and Yonggen Lou


A cellular expression map of the Arabidopsis AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR gene family (pages 597–606)

Eike H. Rademacher, Barbara Möller, Annemarie S. Lokerse, Cristina I. Llavata-Peris, Willy van den Berg and Dolf Weijers


Detailed characterization of mechanical properties and molecular mobility within dry seed glasses: relevance to the physiology of dry biological systems (pages 607–619)

Daniel Ballesteros and Christina Walters


Arabidopsis thaliana GEX1 has dual functions in gametophyte development and early embryogenesis (pages 620–632)

Monica Alandete-Saez, Mily Ron, Samuel Leiboff and Sheila McCormick


DRD1-Pol V-dependent self-silencing of an exogenous silencer restricts the non-cell autonomous silencing of an endogenous target gene (pages 633–645)

Li Dong, Meng Liu, Yuan-Yuan Fang, Jian-Hua Zhao, Xiang-Feng He, Xiao-Bao Ying, Yi-Yue Zhang, Qi Xie, Nam-Hai Chua and Hui-Shan Guo


The E2F transcription factor family regulates CENH3 expression in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 646–656)

Stefan Heckmann, Inna Lermontova, Barbara Berckmans, Lieven De Veylder, Helmut Bäumlein and Ingo Schubert


The Arabidopsis MERISTEM DISORGANIZATION 1 gene is required for the maintenance of stem cells through the reduction of DNA damage (pages 657–669)

Yuma Hashimura and Chiharu Ueguchi


Barley mildew and its elicitor chitosan promote closed stomata by stimulating guard-cell S-type anion channels (pages 670–680)

Sandra Koers, Aysin Guzel-Deger, Irene Marten and M. Rob G. Roelfsema


LATE, a C2H2 zinc-finger protein that acts as floral repressor (pages 681–692)

Magdalena Weingartner, Christa Subert and Norbert Sauer


Arabidopsis ARP endonuclease functions in a branched base excision DNA repair pathway completed by LIG1 (pages 693–702)

Dolores Córdoba-Canero, Teresa Roldán-Arjona and Rafael R. Ariza


Characterization of Linaria KNOX genes suggests a role in petal-spur development (pages 703–714)

Mathew S. Box, Steven Dodsworth, Paula J. Rudall, Richard M. Bateman and Beverley J. Glover


Combined activity of LACS1 and LACS4 is required for proper pollen coat formation in Arabidopsis (pages 715–726)

Dirk Jessen, Andrea Olbrich, Jessica Knüfer, Antje Krüger, Michael Hoppert, Andrea Polle and Martin Fulda


Arabidopsis MAP kinase phosphatase 1 and its target MAP kinases 3 and 6 antagonistically determine UV-B stress tolerance, independent of the UVR8 photoreceptor pathway (pages 727–737)

Marina A. González Besteiro, Sebastian Bartels, Andreas Albert and Roman Ulm


Arabidopsis RUGOSA2 encodes an mTERF family member required for mitochondrion, chloroplast and leaf development (pages 738–753)

Víctor Quesada, Raquel Sarmiento-Manús, Rebeca González-Bayón, Andrea Hricová, Rubén Pérez-Marcos, Eva Graciá-Martínez, Laura Medina-Ruiz, Eduardo Leyva-Díaz, María Rosa Ponce and José Luis Micol


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The Plant Journal - 68 (5), 2011


Contents:

FEATURED ARTICLE


Functional anatomy of the Arabidopsis cytokinesis-specific syntaxin KNOLLE (pages 755–764)

Sonja Touihri, Christian Knöll, York-Dieter Stierhof, Isabel Müller, Ulrike Mayer and Gerd Jürgens


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Chitinase III in pomegranate seeds (Punica granatum Linn.): a high-capacity calcium-binding protein in amyloplasts (pages 765–776)

Haixia Yang, Tuo Zhang, Taro Masuda, Chenyan Lv, Lei Sun, Guiqin Qu and Guanghua Zhao


Rice 14-3-3 protein (GF14e) negatively affects cell death and disease resistance (pages 777–787)

Patricia M. Manosalva, Myron Bruce and Jan E. Leach


ANGUSTIFOLIA, a plant homolog of CtBP/BARS, functions outside the nucleus (pages 788–799)

Naoko Minamisawa, Mayuko Sato, Kiu-Hyung Cho, Hanako Ueno, Katsuaki Takechi, Masataka Kajikawa, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Kanji Ohyama, Kiminori Toyooka, Gyung-Tae Kim, Gorou Horiguchi, Hiroyoshi Takano, Takashi Ueda and Hirokazu Tsukaya


Sulfinylated azadecalins act as functional mimics of a pollen germination stimulant in Arabidopsis pistils (pages 800–815)

Yuan Qin, Ronald J. Wysocki, Arpad Somogyi, Yelena Feinstein, Jessica Y. Franco, Tatsuya Tsukamoto, Damayanthi Dunatunga, Clara Levy, Steven Smith, Robert Simpson, David Gang, Mark A. Johnson and Ravishankar Palanivelu


SPATULA and ALCATRAZ, are partially redundant, functionally diverging bHLH genes required for Arabidopsis gynoecium and fruit development (pages 816–829)

Michael Groszmann, Teodora Paicu, John P. Alvarez, Steve M. Swain and David R. Smyth


NIMA-related kinase NEK6 affects plant growth and stress response in Arabidopsis (pages 830–843)

Bo Zhang, Hao-Wei Chen, Rui-Ling Mu, Wang-Ke Zhang, Ming-Yu Zhao, Wei Wei, Fang Wang, Hui Yu, Gang Lei, Hong-Feng Zou, Biao Ma, Shou-Yi Chen and Jin-Song Zhang


The role of the transmembrane domain in determining the targeting of membrane proteins to either the inner envelope or thylakoid membrane (pages 844–856)

John E. Froehlich and Kenneth Keegstra


TaMYB13 is a transcriptional activator of fructosyltransferase genes involved in ß-2,6-linked fructan synthesis in wheat (pages 857–870)

Gang-Ping Xue, Maarten Kooiker, Janneke Drenth and C. Lynne McIntyre


System responses to long-term drought and re-watering of two contrasting alfalfa varieties (pages 871–889)

Yun Kang, Yuanhong Han, Ivone Torres-Jerez, Mingyi Wang, Yuhong Tang, Maria Monteros and Michael Udvardi


A member of the mitogen-activated protein 3-kinase family is involved in the regulation of plant vacuolar glucose uptake (pages 890–900)

Karina Wingenter, Oliver Trentmann, Irina Winschuh, Imke I. Hörmiller, Arnd G. Heyer, Jörg Reinders, Alexander Schulz, Dietmar Geiger, Rainer Hedrich and H. Ekkehard Neuhaus


Induction and detoxification of maize 1,4-benzoxazin-3-ones by insect herbivores (pages 901–911)

Gaétan Glauser, Guillaume Marti, Neil Villard, Gwladys A. Doyen, Jean-Luc Wolfender, Ted C.J. Turlings and Matthias Erb


Two high linolenic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana contain megabase-scale genome duplications encompassing the FAD3 locus (pages 912–918)

Carmel M. O’Neill, David Baker, Gawain Bennett, Jonathan Clarke and Ian Bancroft


Repression of shade-avoidance reactions by sunfleck induction of HY5 expression in Arabidopsis (pages 919–928)

Romina Sellaro, Marcelo J. Yanovsky and Jorge J. Casal


TECHNICAL ADVANCE


Localized egg-cell expression of effector proteins for targeted modification of the Arabidopsis genome (pages 929–937)

Liron Even-Faitelson, Aviva Samach, Cathy Melamed-Bessudo, Naomi Avivi-Ragolsky and Avraham A. Levy


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Contents:

EDITORIAL


The future is bright for The Plant Journal, now in its 20th year (pages 939–940)

Christoph Benning


FEATURED ARTICLE


Cellulose synthesis via the FEI2 RLK/SOS5 pathway and CELLULOSE SYNTHASE 5 is required for the structure of seed coat mucilage in Arabidopsis (pages 941–953)

Smadar Harpaz-Saad, Heather E. McFarlane, Shouling Xu, Uday K. Divi, Bronwen Forward, Tamara L. Western and Joseph J. Kieber


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Medicago truncatula mtpt4 mutants reveal a role for nitrogen in the regulation of arbuscule degeneration in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (pages 954–965)

Hélene Javot, R. Varma Penmetsa, Florence Breuillin, Kishor K. Bhattarai, Roslyn D. Noar, S. Karen Gomez, Quan Zhang, Douglas R. Cook and Maria J. Harrison


Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I via chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) complex performs a significant physiological role during photosynthesis and plant growth at low temperature in rice (pages 966–976)

Wataru Yamori, Naoki Sakata, Yuji Suzuki, Toshiharu Shikanai and Amane Makino


Functional HAK/KUP/KT-like potassium transporter encoded by chlorella viruses (pages 977–986)

Timo Greiner, José Ramos, Maria C. Alvarez, James R. Gurnon, Ming Kang, James L. Van Etten, Anna Moroni and Gerhard Thiel


Glucose and ethylene signalling pathways converge to regulate trans-differentiation of epidermal transfer cells in Vicia narbonensis cotyledons (pages 987–998)

Felicity A. Andriunas, Hui-Ming Zhang, Hans Weber, David W. McCurdy, Christina E. Offler and John W. Patrick


Combined transcription factor profiling, microarray analysis and metabolite profiling reveals the transcriptional control of metabolic shifts occurring during tomato fruit development (pages 999–1013)

Johannes Rohrmann, Takayuki Tohge, Rob Alba, Sonia Osorio, Camila Caldana, Ryan McQuinn, Samuel Arvidsson, Margaretha J. van der Merwe, Diego Mauricio Riano-Pachón, Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Zhangjun Fei, Adriano Nunes Nesi, James J. Giovannoni and Alisdair R. Fernie


Comparative deep transcriptional profiling of four developing oilseeds (pages 1014–1027)

Manuel A. Troncoso-Ponce, Aruna Kilaru, Xia Cao, Timothy P. Durrett, Jilian Fan, Jacob K. Jensen, Nick A. Thrower, Markus Pauly, Curtis Wilkerson and John B. Ohlrogge


Sequence divergence and loss-of-function phenotypes of S locus F-box brothers genes are consistent with non-self recognition by multiple pollen determinants in self-incompatibility of Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) (pages 1028–1038)

Hiroyuki Kakui, Masaki Kato, Koichiro Ushijima, Miyoko Kitaguchi, Shu Kato and Hidenori Sassa


A plastid protein NUS1 is essential for build-up of the genetic system for early chloroplast development under cold stress conditions (pages 1039–1050)

Kensuke Kusumi, Chikako Sakata, Takahiro Nakamura, Shinji Kawasaki, Atsushi Yoshimura and Koh Iba


Domain loss has independently occurred multiple times in plant terpene synthase evolution (pages 1051–1060)

Matthew L. Hillwig, Meimei Xu, Tomonobu Toyomasu, Mollie S. Tiernan, Gao Wei, Guanghong Cui, Luqi Huang and Reuben J. Peters


An Al-inducible MATE gene is involved in external detoxification of Al in rice (pages 1061–1069)

Kengo Yokosho, Naoki Yamaji and Jian Feng Ma


The pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase regulatory proteins of Arabidopsis are both bifunctional and interact with the catalytic and nucleotide-binding domains of pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase (pages 1070–1080)

Holly M. Astley, Kate Parsley, Sylvain Aubry, Chris J. Chastain, Jim N. Burnell, Michael E. Webb and Julian M. Hibberd


Overexpression of Arabidopsis thaliana PTEN caused accumulation of autophagic bodies in pollen tubes by disrupting phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate dynamics (pages 1081–1092)

Yan Zhang, Sha Li, Liang-Zi Zhou, Emily Fox, James Pao, Wei Sun, Chao Zhou and Sheila McCormick


Chromosomal rearrangements between tomato and Solanum chilense hamper mapping and breeding of the TYLCV resistance gene Ty-1 (pages 1093–1103)

Maarten G. Verlaan, Dóra Szinay, Samuel F. Hutton, Hans de Jong, Richard Kormelink, Richard G.F. Visser, John W. Scott and Yuling Bai


NAC domain function and transcriptional control of a secondary cell wall master switch (pages 1104–1114)

Huanzhong Wang, Qiao Zhao, Fang Chen, Mingyi Wang and Richard A. Dixon


Specific delivery of AtBT1 to mitochondria complements the aberrant growth and sterility phenotype of homozygous Atbt1 Arabidopsis mutants (pages 1115–1121)

Abdellatif Bahaji, Francisco José Munoz, Miroslav Ovecka, Edurne Baroja-Fernández, Manuel Montero, Jun Li, Maite Hidalgo, Goizeder Almagro, María Teresa Sesma, Ignacio Ezquer and Javier Pozueta-Romero


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The Plant Journal - 67 (4), 2011


Contents:


EDITORIAL


The Plant Journal turns twenty (pages 567–569)

Christoph Benning


ORIGINAL ARTICLES

AtKC1 is a general modulator of Arabidopsis inward Shaker channel activity (pages 570–582)

Linda Jeanguenin, Carine Alcon, Geoffrey Duby, Martin Boeglin, Isabelle Chérel, Isabelle Gaillard, Sabine Zimmermann, Hervé Sentenac and Anne-Aliénor Véry


OsSGO1 maintains synaptonemal complex stabilization in addition to protecting centromeric cohesion during rice meiosis (pages 583–594)

Mo Wang, Ding Tang, Kejian Wang, Yi Shen, Baoxiang Qin, Chunbo Miao, Ming Li and Zhukuan Cheng


Hyper-activation of the TCP4 transcription factor in Arabidopsis thaliana accelerates multiple aspects of plant maturation (pages 595–607)

Kavitha Sarvepalli and Utpal Nath


LOV KELCH PROTEIN2 and ZEITLUPE repress Arabidopsis photoperiodic flowering under non-inductive conditions, dependent on FLAVIN-BINDING KELCH REPEAT F-BOX1 (pages 608–621)

Tomoyuki Takase, Yuuki Nishiyama, Haruna Tanihigashi, Yasunobu Ogura, Yuji Miyazaki, Yumiko Yamada and Tomohiro Kiyosue


Hierarchy of hormone action controlling apical hook development in Arabidopsis (pages 622–634)

Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, María V. Arana, Filip Vandenbussche, Petra Žádníková, Eugenio G. Minguet, Vicente Guardiola, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Eva Benkova, David Alabadí and Miguel A. Blázquez


PIPKs are essential for rhizoid elongation and caulonemal cell development in the moss Physcomitrella patens (pages 635–647)

Laura Saavedra, Virginia Balbi, Jennifer Lerche, Koji Mikami, Ingo Heilmann and Marianne Sommarin


PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE SYNTHASE1 is required for microspore development in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 648–661)

Yasuyo Yamaoka, Yanbo Yu, Junya Mizoi, Yuki Fujiki, Kyoko Saito, Masahiro Nishijima, Youngsook Lee and Ikuo Nishida


Phylogenetic variation in glycosidases and glycanases acting on plant cell wall polysaccharides, and the detection of transglycosidase and trans-ß-xylanase activities (pages 662–681)

Lenka Franková and Stephen C. Fry


The biosynthesis of Caryophyllaceae-like cyclic peptides in Saponaria vaccaria L. from DNA-encoded precursors (pages 682–690)

Janet A. Condie, Goska Nowak, Darwin W. Reed, J. John Balsevich, Martin J. T. Reaney, Paul G. Arnison and Patrick S. Covello


Additive inheritance of histone modifications in Arabidopsis thaliana intra-specific hybrids (pages 691–700)

Ali M. Banaei Moghaddam, Francois Roudier, Michael Seifert, Caroline Bérard, Marie-Laure M. Magniette, Raheleh Karimi Ashtiyani, Andreas Houben, Vincent Colot and Michael F. Mette


Role of tomato BRANCHED1-like genes in the control of shoot branching (pages 701–714)

Mar Martín-Trillo, Eduardo González Grandío, François Serra, Fabien Marcel, María Luisa Rodríguez-Buey, Gregor Schmitz, Klaus Theres, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Hernán Dopazo and Pilar Cubas


FEATURED ARTICLE


Next-generation mapping of Arabidopsis genes (pages 715–725)

Ryan S. Austin, Danielle Vidaurre, George Stamatiou, Robert Breit, Nicholas J. Provart, Dario Bonetta, Jianfeng Zhang, Pauline Fung, Yunchen Gong, Pauline W. Wang, Peter McCourt and David S. Guttman


STARTS – A stable root transformation system for rapid functional analyses of proteins of the monocot model plant barley (pages 726–735)

Jafargholi Imani, Liang Li, Patrick Schäfer and Karl-Heinz Kogel


Large-scale detection of rare variants via pooled multiplexed next-generation sequencing: towards next-generation Ecotilling (pages 736–745)

Fabio Marroni, Sara Pinosio, Eleonora Di Centa, Irena Jurman, Wout Boerjan, Nicoletta Felice, Federica Cattonaro and Michele Morgante



ERRATUM


Erratum (page 746)


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Contents:


FEATURED ARTICLE


Pepper asparagine synthetase 1 (CaAS1) is required for plant nitrogen assimilation and defense responses to microbial pathogens (pages 749–762)

In Sun Hwang, Soo Hyun An and Byung Kook Hwang


Wheat flowering repressor VRN2 and promoter CO2 compete for interactions with NUCLEAR FACTOR-Y complexes (pages 763–773)

Chengxia Li, Assaf Distelfeld, Alfio Comis and Jorge Dubcovsky


Pseudomonas syringae colonizes distant tissues in Nicotiana benthamiana through xylem vessels (pages 774–782)

Johana C. Misas-Villamil, Izabella Kolodziejek and Renier A. L. van der Hoorn


Arabidopsis ocp3 mutant reveals a mechanism linking ABA and JA to pathogen-induced callose deposition (pages 783–794)

Javier García-Andrade, Vicente Ramírez, Victor Flors and Pablo Vera


The Arabidopsis thaliana aquaporin AtPIP1;2 is a physiologically relevant CO2 transport facilitator (pages 795–804)

Marlies Heckwolf, Dianne Pater, David T. Hanson and Ralf Kaldenhoff


Proper gibberellin localization in vascular tissue is required to control auxin-dependent leaf development and bud outgrowth in hybrid aspen (pages 805–816)

Mélanie Mauriat, Linda G. Sandberg and Thomas Moritz


Polarization of PIN3-dependent auxin transport for hypocotyl gravitropic response in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 817–826)

Hana Rakusová, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Marleen Vanstraelen, Hélene S. Robert, David Alabadí, Miguel A. Blázquez, Eva Benková and Jiří Friml


Structure and binding specificity of the receiver domain of sensor histidine kinase CKI1 from Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 827–839)

Blanka Pekárová, Tomáš Klumpler, Olga Třísková, Jakub Horák, Séverine Jansen, Radka Dopitová, Petra Borkovcová, Veronika Papoušková, Eliška Nejedlá, Vladimír Sklenář, Jaromír Marek, Lukáš Žídek, Jan Hejátko and Lubomír Janda


An atypical heterotrimeric G-protein ?-subunit is involved in guard cell K+-channel regulation and morphological development in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 840–851)

David Chakravorty, Yuri Trusov, Wei Zhang, Biswa R. Acharya, Michael B. Sheahan, David W. McCurdy, Sarah M. Assmann and José Ramón Botella


Metabolomic approaches reveal that cell wall modifications play a major role in ethylene-mediated resistance against Botrytis cinerea (pages 852–868)

Amanda J. Lloyd, J. William Allwood, Catherine L. Winder, Warwick B. Dunn, James K. Heald, Simona M. Cristescu, Anushen Sivakumaran, Frans J. M. Harren, Joseph Mulema, Katherine Denby, Royston Goodacre, Aileen R. Smith and Luis A. J. Mur


High-density kinetic analysis of the metabolomic and transcriptomic response of Arabidopsis to eight environmental conditions (pages 869–884)

Camila Caldana, Thomas Degenkolbe, Alvaro Cuadros-Inostroza, Sebastian Klie, Ronan Sulpice, Andrea Leisse, Dirk Steinhauser, Alisdair R. Fernie, Lothar Willmitzer and Matthew A. Hannah


Arabidopsis mutants of AtABCG22, an ABC transporter gene, increase water transpiration and drought susceptibility (pages 885–894)

Takashi Kuromori, Eriko Sugimoto and Kazuo Shinozaki


AtMPK4 is required for male-specific meiotic cytokinesis in Arabidopsis (pages 895–906)

Qingning Zeng, Jin-Gui Chen and Brian E. Ellis


Suppression of the rice heterotrimeric G protein ß-subunit gene, RGB1, causes dwarfism and browning of internodes and lamina joint regions (pages 907–916)

Yuzuko Utsunomiya, Chihiro Samejima, Yoshiyuki Takayanagi, Yuki Izawa, Takahisa Yoshida, Yuka Sawada, Yukiko Fujisawa, Hisaharu Kato and Yukimoto Iwasaki


The transcription factor EMISSION OF BENZENOIDS II activates the MYB ODORANT1 promoter at a MYB binding site specific for fragrant petunias (pages 917–928)

Alex Van Moerkercke, Michel A. Haring and Robert C. Schuurink


Lotus japonicus symRK-14 uncouples the cortical and epidermal symbiotic program (pages 929–940)

Sonja Kosuta, Mark Held, Md Shakhawat Hossain, Giulia Morieri, Amanda MacGillivary, Christopher Johansen, Meritxell Antolín-Llovera, Martin Parniske, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, Allan J. Downie, Bogumil Karas and Krzysztof Szczyglowski



TECHNICAL ADVANCE


Biolistic co-transformation of the nuclear and plastid genomes (pages 941–948)

Zouhair Elghabi, Stephanie Ruf and Ralph Bock



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The Plant Journal - 67 (6), 2011


Contents:

ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Recruitment of a duplicated primary metabolism gene into the nicotine biosynthesis regulon in tobacco (pages 949–959)

Tsubasa Shoji and Takashi Hashimoto


In vivo grapevine anthocyanin transport involves vesicle-mediated trafficking and the contribution of anthoMATE transporters and GST (pages 960–970)

Camila Gomez, Genevieve Conejero, Laurent Torregrosa, Véronique Cheynier, Nancy Terrier and Agnes Ageorges


Unique morphological changes in plant pathogenic phytoplasma-infected petunia flowers are related to transcriptional regulation of floral homeotic genes in an organ-specific manner (pages 971–979)

Misako Himeno, Yutaro Neriya, Nami Minato, Chihiro Miura, Kyoko Sugawara, Yoshiko Ishii, Yasuyuki Yamaji, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Kenro Oshima and Shigetou Namba


Arabidopsis ENHANCED DISEASE RESISTANCE 1 is required for pathogen-induced expression of plant defensins in nonhost resistance, and acts through interference of MYC2-mediated repressor function (pages 980–992)

Kei Hiruma, Takumi Nishiuchi, Tomoaki Kato, Paweł Bednarek, Tetsuro Okuno, Paul Schulze-Lefert and Yoshitaka Takano


NIMA-related kinases 6, 4, and 5 interact with each other to regulate microtubule organization during epidermal cell expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 993–1005)

Hiroyasu Motose, Takahiro Hamada, Kaori Yoshimoto, Takashi Murata, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Yuichiro Watanabe, Takashi Hashimoto, Tatsuya Sakai and Taku Takahashi


The Arabidopsis SOC1-like genes AGL42, AGL71 and AGL72 promote flowering in the shoot apical and axillary meristems (pages 1006–1017)

Carmen Dorca-Fornell, Veronica Gregis, Valentina Grandi, George Coupland, Lucia Colombo and Martin M. Kater


Cofactome analyses reveal enhanced flux of carbon into oil for potential biofuel production (pages 1018–1028)

Daniel M. Hayden, Hardy Rolletschek, Ljudmilla Borisjuk, Jason Corwin, Daniel J. Kliebenstein, Asa Grimberg, Sten Stymne and Katayoon Dehesh


CBP60g and SARD1 play partially redundant critical roles in salicylic acid signaling (pages 1029–1041)

Lin Wang, Kenichi Tsuda, William Truman, Masanao Sato, Le V. Nguyen, Fumiaki Katagiri and Jane Glazebrook


The key enzyme of sulfate assimilation, adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase, is regulated by HY5 in Arabidopsis (pages 1042–1054)

Bok-Rye Lee, Anna Koprivova and Stanislav Kopriva


Dual functions of the nucleus-encoded factor TDA1 in trapping and translation activation of atpA transcripts in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts (pages 1055–1066)

Stephan Eberhard, Christelle Loiselay, Dominique Drapier, Sandrine Bujaldon, Jacqueline Girard-Bascou, Richard Kuras, Yves Choquet and Francis-André Wollman


The RCC1 family protein RUG3 is required for splicing of nad2 and complex I biogenesis in mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 1067–1080)

Kristina Kühn, Chris Carrie, Estelle Giraud, Yan Wang, Etienne H. Meyer, Reena Narsai, Catherine Colas des Francs-Small, Botao Zhang, Monika W. Murcha and James Whelan


BON1 interacts with the protein kinases BIR1 and BAK1 in modulation of temperature-dependent plant growth and cell death in Arabidopsis (pages 1081–1093)

Zheng Wang, Pei Meng, Xiaoyan Zhang, Dongtao Ren and Shuhua Yang


Integrating long-day flowering signals: a LEAFY binding site is essential for proper photoperiodic activation of APETALA1 (pages 1094–1102)

Reyes Benlloch, Min Chul Kim, Camille Sayou, Emmanuel Thévenon, Francois Parcy and Ove Nilsson


FEATURED ARTICLE


Using spontaneous photon emission to image lipid oxidation patterns in plant tissues (pages 1103–1115)

Simona Birtic, Brigitte Ksas, Bernard Genty, Martin J. Mueller, Christian Triantaphylides and Michel Havaux


In vivo analysis of local wall stiffness at the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis using atomic force microscopy (pages 1116–1123)

Pascale Milani, Maryam Gholamirad, Jan Traas, Alain Arnéodo, Arezki Boudaoud, Françoise Argoul and Olivier Hamant


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The Indian Forester - 138 (2), 2012

Contents:

Tree and shrub diversity in degraded hills of bar-conglomerate formation of Pali district of Rajasthan
Ashok Kumar, Beena Tripathi and G. Singh

Effect of root exudates on dolonisation of AM fungi in Jatropha curcas
Jamaluddin and Rekha Shukla

Deployment of resistance in teak to key insect pests
N. Roychoudhury

Impact of anthropogenic pressure on the biomass and productivity of forest floor vegetation in a submontain forest of tarai of Kumaun Himalaya
Bhasker Joshi and S.C. Pant

Wood protection by Pongamia pinnata seed oil through heating process
Sadhna Tripathi, Hridesh Kumar and Himani Pant

Response of standard rooting system of leachates and alcoholic extracts from difficult to root arboreal species
V. Sharma

Taxonomic observations on the family Adiantaceae from eastern Garhwal region of Uttarakhand
H.C. Pande, Chhaya Singh, Avneet Kaur and Pragya Joshi

Community structure, species niche width and soil characteristics in a transitional zone of sub-tropical forest
Munesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Mehraj A. Sheikh and M.S. Gusain

Indigenous veterinary use of medicinal plants in Sikkim Himalaya
Kumar Avinash Bharati and B.L. Sharma

Infestation status of heart rot disease of pasur (Xylocarpus mekongensis) tree in the Sundarbans
A.S.M. Helal Siddiqui and Abul Khair

Propagation technique of Crataegus crenulata : A multipurpose plant of mid Himalayan hills
Ranjit Singh, P.S. Negi, M.C. Arya and Z. Ahmed

Variation in fruit morphological traits of Jatropha curcas at stand and tree level
Kshitij Malhotra, Dinesh Kumar and Vidya Dhar Pandey

Diversity of entomopathogenic fungi in the Kerala part of the Western ghats
R.F. Juliya, K.V. Sankaran and R.V. Varma

Portrait of community mapping stages through zoning system on management of Teluk Cenderawasih National Park, West Papua
Sepus Fatem and Jim Van Laar

Pteriodophytic flora of Hadaut plateau of Rajasthan, India
Chandra Shekhar Gupta

Influence of storage period on viability and moisture content of seeds of Alangium lamarckii thwaites (Alangiaceae)
J.R. Ahirwar

New record of Icerya purchasi in one year old seedlings of Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth.
S.K. Verma, Gireesh Chand and Pankaj Kumar

Variety novae of Ceropegia mahahalei hemadri et. ansari (Apocynaceae : Asclepiadoideae)
S.S. Rahangdale and S.R. Rahangdale

FROM THE INDIAN FORESTER - ONE HUNDRED YEAR AGO

LETTER TO THE EDITOR


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The Cactus Eksplorers - 2-3, 2011

The Cactus Eksplorers - 2, 2011



Contents:


Introduction

News and Events

Recent New Descriptions

In the Glasshouse

Journal Roundup

The Love of Books

Succulents of Isla de Cedros

My Trip with Arthur 2006

Echeveria laui is in Care

Matucana myriacantha high above the Rio Crisnejas

Plea to Cactus Explorers

Travel with the Cactus Expert (1)

A Day in the Quebrada de Tastil

Echinomastus johnsonii

Society Page

Retail Therapy



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The Cactus Eksplorers - 3, 2011


Contents:

Introduction

News and Events

Thank you John (Pilbeam)

Recent New Descriptions

Lophophora alberto-vojtechii

In the Glasshouse

Journal Roundup

The Love of Books

Gasteria rawlinsonii in the Baviaanskloof

Mammillaria luethyi. In search of a botanical jewel from Mexico

My search for Obregonia denegrii

Melocactus on two Caribbean Islands

Why Echeveria penduliflora?

Travel with the cactus expert (2)

Uebelmannia pectinifera var. eriocactoides

Expedition to Socotra, 1967

Society Page

Retail Therapy


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