Plant, Cell & Environment - 34 (8-12), 2011

Plant, Cell & Environment - 34 (8), 2011


Contents:

Original Articles


Stagnant deoxygenated growth enhances root suberization and lignifications, but differentially affects water and NaCl permeabilities in rice (Oryza sativa L.) roots (pages 1223–1240)

KOSALA RANATHUNGE, JINXING LIN, ERNST STEUDLE and LUKAS SCHREIBER


Measurement of carbon flux through the MEP pathway for isoprenoid synthesis by 31P-NMR spectroscopy after specific inhibition of 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate reductase. Effect of light and temperature (pages 1241–1247)

GAËLLE MONGÉLARD, MYRIAM SEEMANN, ANNE-MARIE BOISSON, MICHEL ROHMER, RICHARD BLIGNY and CORINNE RIVASSEAU


Stochastic dynamics of actin filaments in guard cells regulating chloroplast localization during stomatal movement (pages 1248–1257)

XIU-LING WANG, XIN-QI GAO and XUE-CHEN WANG


Do pH changes in the leaf apoplast contribute to rapid inhibition of leaf elongation rate by water stress? Comparison of stress responses induced by polyethylene glycol and down-regulation of root hydraulic conductivity (pages 1258–1266)

CHRISTINA EHLERT, CLAUDE PLASSARD, SARAH JANE COOKSON, FRANÇOIS TARDIEU and THIERRY SIMONNEAU


Systemic root signalling in a belowground, volatile-mediated tritrophic interaction (pages 1267–1275)

IVAN HILTPOLD, MATTHIAS ERB, CHRISTELLE A. M. ROBERT and TED C. J. TURLINGS


Genetic determinism of anatomical and hydraulic traits within an apple progeny (pages 1276–1290)

PIERRE-ÉRIC LAURI, OLIVIER GORZA, HERVÉ COCHARD, SÉBASTIEN MARTINEZ, JEAN-MARC CELTON, VÉRONIQUE RIPETTI, MARC LARTAUD, XAVIER BRY, CATHERINE TROTTIER and EVELYNE COSTES


ZmMKK4, a novel group C mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase in maize (Zea mays), confers salt and cold tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis (pages 1291–1303)

XIANGPEI KONG, JIAOWEN PAN, MAOYING ZHANG, XIN XING, YAN ZHOU, YANG LIU, DAPENG LI and DEQUAN LI


Auxin modulates the enhanced development of root hairs in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. under elevated CO2 (pages 1304–1317)

YAOFANG NIU, CHONGWEI JIN, GULEI JIN, QINGYAN ZHOU, XIANYONG LIN, CAIXIAN TANG and YONGSONG ZHANG


Influence of evaporative demand on aquaporin expression and root hydraulics of hybrid poplar (pages 1318–1331)

ADRIANA M. ALMEIDA-RODRIGUEZ, UWE G. HACKE and JOAN LAUR


Leaf functional response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last century in two northern Amazonian tree species: a historical ?13C and ?18O approach using herbarium samples (pages 1332–1344)

DAMIEN BONAL, STÉPHANE PONTON, DIDIER LE THIEC, BÉATRICE RICHARD, NATHALIE NINGRE, BRUNO HÉRAULT, JÉRÔME OGÉE, SOPHIE GONZALEZ, MARC PIGNAL, DANIEL SABATIER and JEAN-MARC GUEHL


Vitis CBF1 and Vitis CBF4 differ in their effect on Arabidopsis abiotic stress tolerance, development and gene expression (pages 1345–1359)

MAHBUBA SIDDIQUA and ANNETTE NASSUTH


Rice OsNAR2.1 interacts with OsNRT2.1, OsNRT2.2 and OsNRT2.3a nitrate transporters to provide uptake over high and low concentration ranges (pages 1360–1372)

MING YAN, XIAORONG FAN, HUIMING FENG, ANTHONY J. MILLER, QIRONG SHEN and GUOHUA XU


In vivo cytochrome and alternative pathway respiration in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana plants with altered alternative oxidase under different light conditions (pages 1373–1383)

IGOR FLOREZ-SARASA, JAUME FLEXAS, ALLAN G. RASMUSSON, ANN L. UMBACH, JAMES N. SIEDOW and MIQUEL RIBAS-CARBO


Water relations of coast redwood planted in the semi-arid climate of southern California (pages 1384–1400)

ELIZAVETA LITVAK, HEATHER R. MCCARTHY and DIANE E. PATAKI


Increased exposure to UV-B radiation during early development leads to enhanced photoprotection and improved long-term performance in Lactuca sativa (pages 1401–1413)

JASON J. WARGENT, ESLAM M. ELFADLY, JASON P. MOORE and NIGEL D. PAUL


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Plant, Cell & Environment - 34 (9), 2011


Contents:

Original Articles


Water-use efficiency and nitrogen-use efficiency of C3-C4 intermediate species of Flaveria Juss. (Asteraceae) (pages 1415–1430)

PATRICK J. VOGAN and ROWAN F. SAGE


Plant adaptation to frequent alterations between high and low temperatures: remodelling of membrane lipids and maintenance of unsaturation levels (pages 1431–1442)

GUOWEI ZHENG, BO TIAN, FUJUAN ZHANG, FAQING TAO and WEIQI LI


A maritime pine antimicrobial peptide involved in ammonium nutrition (pages 1443–1453)

JAVIER CANALES, CONCEPCIÓN AVILA and FRANCISCO M. CÁNOVAS


Methylglyoxal functions as Hill oxidant and stimulates the photoreduction of O2 at photosystem I: a symptom of plant diabetes (pages 1454–1464)

RYOTA SAITO, HIROSHI YAMAMOTO, AMANE MAKINO, TOSHIO SUGIMOTO and CHIKAHIRO MIYAKE


Inorganic carbon acquisition in two green marine Stichococcus species (pages 1465–1472)

MARYAM MOAZAMI-GOUDARZI and BRIAN COLMAN


Quantitative trait loci analysis reveals a correlation between the ratio of sucrose/raffinose family oligosaccharides and seed vigour in Medicago truncatula (pages 1473–1487)

CÉLINE VANDECASTEELE, BÉATRICE TEULAT-MERAH, MARIE-CHRISTINE MORERE-LE PAVEN, OLIVIER LEPRINCE, BENOIT LY VU, LAURE VIAU, LYDIE LEDROIT, SANDRA PELLETIER, NICOLE PAYET, PASCALE SATOUR, CAMILLE LEBRAS, KARINE GALLARDO, THIERRY HUGUET, ANIS M. LIMAMI, JEAN-MARIE PROSPERI and JULIA BUITINK


Comparative physiology and transcriptional networks underlying the heat shock response in Populus trichocarpa, Arabidopsis thaliana and Glycine max (pages 1488–1506)

DAVID J. WESTON, ABHIJIT A. KARVE, LEE E. GUNTER, SARA S. JAWDY, XIAOHAN YANG, SARA M. ALLEN and STAN D. WULLSCHLEGER


Revealing complexity and specificity in the activation of lipase-mediated oxylipin biosynthesis: a specific role of the Nicotiana attenuata GLA1 lipase in the activation of jasmonic acid biosynthesis in leaves and roots (pages 1507–1520)

GUSTAVO BONAVENTURE, STEFAN SCHUCK and IAN T. BALDWIN


Estimation of canopy average mesophyll conductance using ?13C of phloem contents (pages 1521–1535)

NEREA UBIERNA and JOHN D. MARSHALL


Morphological and physiological differentiation of seedlings between dry and wet habitats in a tropical dry forest (pages 1536–1547)

FERNANDO PINEDA-GARCÍA, HORACIO PAZ and CLARA TINOCO-OJANGUREN


Spatial variation in photosynthetic CO2 carbon and oxygen isotope discrimination along leaves of the monocot triticale (Triticum × Secale) relates to mesophyll conductance and the Péclet effect (pages 1548–1562)

NAOMI KODAMA, ASAPH COUSINS, KEVIN P. TU and MARGARET M. BARBOUR


Changes in light intensity reveal a major role for carbon balance in Arabidopsis responses to high temperature (pages 1563–1576)

FRANÇOIS VASSEUR, FLORENT PANTIN and DENIS VILE


Mycorrhizal symbiosis stimulates endoreduplication in angiosperms (pages 1577–1585)

L. D. BAINARD, J. D. BAINARD, S. G. NEWMASTER and J. N. KLIRONOMOS


Hydrogen peroxide modulates the dynamic microtubule cytoskeleton during the defence responses to Verticillium dahliae toxins in Arabidopsis (pages 1586–1598)

LIN-LIN YAO, QUN ZHOU, BAO-LEI PEI and YING-ZHANG LI


Compound-specific differences in 13C of soluble carbohydrates in leaves and phloem of 6-month-old Eucalyptus globulus (Labill) (pages 1599–1608)

ANDREW MERCHANT, BIRGIT WILD, ANDREAS RICHTER, SIDONIE BELLOT, MARK A. ADAMS and ERWIN DREYER


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Plant, Cell & Environment - 34 (10), 2011


Contents:

Original Articles


Responses to water stress of gas exchange and metabolites in Eucalyptus and Acacia spp. (pages 1609–1629)

CHARLES R. WARREN, ISMAEL ARANDA and F. JAVIER CANO


Water supply and not nitrate concentration determines primary root growth in Arabidopsis (pages 1630–1638)

NICK CHAPMAN, W. RICHARD WHALLEY, KEITH LINDSEY and ANTHONY J. MILLER


Leaf wax n-alkane ?D values are determined early in the ontogeny of Populus trichocarpa leaves when grown under controlled environmental conditions (pages 1639–1651)

ANSGAR KAHMEN, TODD E. DAWSON, ANDREA VIETH and DIRK SACHSE


Are gas exchange responses to resource limitation and defoliation linked to source:sink relationships? (pages 1652–1665)

E. A. PINKARD, A. EYLES and A. P. O'GRADY


Impact of irradiance on the C allocation in the coastal marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi Sarno and Zingone (pages 1666–1677)

ALESSANDRA NORICI, ANNA MARIA BAZZONI, ALESSANDRA PUGNETTI, JOHN A. RAVEN and MARIO GIORDANO


EIN2 regulates salt stress response and interacts with a MA3 domain-containing protein ECIP1 in Arabidopsis (pages 1678–1692)

GANG LEI, MING SHEN, ZHI-GANG LI, BO ZHANG, KAI-XUAN DUAN, NING WANG, YANG-RONG CAO, WAN-KE ZHANG, BIAO MA, HONG-QING LING, SHOU-YI CHEN and JIN-SONG ZHANG


Identification of a homolog of Arabidopsis DSP4 (SEX4) in chestnut: its induction and accumulation in stem amyloplasts during winter or in response to the cold (pages 1693–1704)

MARTA BERROCAL-LOBO, CRISTIAN IBANEZ, PALOMA ACEBO, ALBERTO RAMOS, ESTEFANIA PEREZ-SOLIS, CARMEN COLLADA, ROSA CASADO, CIPRIANO ARAGONCILLO and ISABEL ALLONA


Role of peroxidases in the compensation of cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase knockdown in rice plants under abiotic stress (pages 1705–1722)

AURENIVIA BONIFACIO, MARCIO O. MARTINS, CAROLINA W. RIBEIRO, ADILTON V. FONTENELE, FABRICIO E. L. CARVALHO, MÁRCIA MARGIS-PINHEIRO and JOAQUIM A. G. SILVEIRA


Characterization of C3–C4 intermediate species in the genus Heliotropium L. (Boraginaceae): anatomy, ultrastructure and enzyme activity (pages 1723–1736)

RIYADH MUHAIDAT, TAMMY L. SAGE, MICHAEL W. FROHLICH, NANCY G. DENGLER and ROWAN F. SAGE


The low temperature response pathways for cold acclimation and vernalization are independent (pages 1737–1748)

DONNA M. BOND, ELIZABETH S. DENNIS and E. JEAN FINNEGAN


Links between root developmental traits and foraging performance (pages 1749–1760)

LOIC PAGES


The application of ?18O and ?D for understanding water pools and fluxes in a Typha marsh (pages 1761–1775)

NEETA S. BIJOOR, DIANE E. PATAKI, ADRIAN V. ROCHA and MICHAEL L. GOULDEN


Regulation of RhSUC2, a sucrose transporter, is correlated with the light control of bud burst in Rosa sp. (pages 1776–1789)

CLEMENCE HENRY, AMELIE RABOT, MARYSE LALOI, ERIC MORTREAU, MONIQUE SIGOGNE, NATHALIE LEDUC, RÉMI LEMOINE, SOULAIMAN SAKR, ALAIN VIAN and SANDRINE PELLESCHI-TRAVIER


Transition of stable isotope ratios of leaf water under simulated dew formation (pages 1790–1801)

KYOUNGHEE KIM and XUHUI LEE




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Plant, Cell & Environment - 34 (11), 2011


Contents:

Original Articles


High temperature triggers the metabolism of S-nitrosothiols in sunflower mediating a process of nitrosative stress which provokes the inhibition of ferredoxin–NADP reductase by tyrosine nitration (pages 1803–1818)

MOUNIRA CHAKI, RAQUEL VALDERRAMA, ANA M. FERNÁNDEZ-OCANA, ALFONSO CARRERAS, MARIA V. GÓMEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, JAVIER LÓPEZ-JARAMILLO, JUAN C. BEGARA-MORALES, BEATRIZ SÁNCHEZ-CALVO, FRANCISCO LUQUE, MARINA LETERRIER, FRANCISCO J. CORPAS and JUAN B. BARROSO


A carbon cost–gain model explains the observed patterns of xylem safety and efficiency (pages 1819–1834)

TEEMU HÖLTTÄ, MAURIZIO MENCUCCINI and EERO NIKINMAA


Phloem unloading follows an extensive apoplasmic pathway in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruit from anthesis to marketable maturing stage (pages 1835–1848)

LIPING HU, HUIHUI SUN, RUIFU LI, LINGYUN ZHANG, SHAOHUI WANG, XIAOLEI SUI and ZHENXIAN ZHANG


Crosstalk between abiotic ultraviolet-B stress and biotic (flg22) stress signalling in Arabidopsis prevents flavonol accumulation in favor of pathogen defence compound production (pages 1849–1864)

DIRK SCHENKE, CHRISTOPH BÖTTCHER and DIERK SCHEEL


Nutritional benefit from leaf litter utilization in the pitcher plant Nepenthes ampullaria (pages 1865–1873)

ANDREJ PAVLOVIČ, ĽUDMILA SLOVÁKOVÁ and JIŘÍ ŠANTRŮČEK


Differential response of young and adult leaves to herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in pea plants: role of reactive oxygen species (pages 1874–1889)

DIANA M. PAZMINO, MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ-SERRANO, MARÍA C. ROMERO-PUERTAS, ANGUSTIAS ARCHILLA-RUIZ, LUIS A. DEL RÍO and LUISA M. SANDALIO


Physiological impact of mitochondrial alternative oxidase on photosynthesis and growth in Arabidopsis thaliana (pages 1890–1899)

KEISUKE YOSHIDA, CHIHIRO K. WATANABE, ICHIRO TERASHIMA and KO NOGUCHI


Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) induces stomatal closure in Arabidopsis (pages 1900–1906)

MD. ATIQUR RAHMAN KHOKON, MD. SARWAR JAHAN, TANIYA RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD ANOWAR HOSSAIN, DAICHI MUROYAMA, IKUKO MINAMI, SHINTARO MUNEMASA, IZUMI C. MORI, YOSHIMASA NAKAMURA and YOSHIYUKI MURATA


Understanding the role of H2O2 during pea seed germination: a combined proteomic and hormone profiling approach (pages 1907–1919)

GREGORIO BARBA-ESPÍN, PEDRO DIAZ-VIVANCOS, DOMINIQUE JOB, MAYA BELGHAZI, CLAUDETTE JOB and JOSÉ ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ


Water stress, shoot growth and storage of non-structural carbohydrates along a tree height gradient in a tall conifer (pages 1920–1930)

DAVID R. WOODRUFF and FREDERICK C. MEINZER


Glycinebetaine enhances the tolerance of tomato plants to high temperature during germination of seeds and growth of seedlings (pages 1931–1943)

SHUFEN LI, FENG LI, JIANWEI WANG, WEN ZHANG, QINGWEI MENG, TONY H. H. CHEN, NORIO MURATA and XINGHONG YANG


An Arabidopsis (malectin-like) leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase contributes to downy mildew disease (pages 1944–1957)

SOPHIE HOK, ETIENNE G. J. DANCHIN, VALÉRIE ALLASIA, FRANCK PANABIERES, AGNES ATTARD and HARALD KELLER


A paralog of the MtN3/saliva family recessively confers race-specific resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae in rice (pages 1958–1969)

QINSONG LIU, MENG YUAN, YAN ZHOU, XIANGHUA LI, JINGHUA XIAO and SHIPING WANG


Safeners recruit multiple signalling pathways for the orchestrated induction of the cellular xenobiotic detoxification machinery in Arabidopsis (pages 1970–1985)

CARINA BEHRINGER, KLAUS BARTSCH and ANDREAS SCHALLER


Photosynthetic photon flux density and phytochrome B interact to regulate branching in Arabidopsis (pages 1986–1998)

HONGWEN SU, SCOTT D. ABERNATHY, RICHARD H. WHITE and SCOTT A. FINLAYSON


Temperature response of mesophyll conductance in cultivated and wild Oryza species with contrasting mesophyll cell wall thickness (pages 1999–2008)

ANDREW P. SCAFARO, SUSANNE VON CAEMMERER, JOHN R. EVANS and BRIAN J. ATWELL



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Plant, Cell & Environment - 34 (12), 2011


Contents:

Review Article


Gene discovery in cereals through quantitative trait loci and expression analysis in water-use efficiency measured by carbon isotope discrimination (pages 2009–2023)

JING CHEN, SCOTT X. CHANG and ANTHONY O. ANYIA


Original Articles


Responses of barley root and shoot proteomes to long-term nitrogen deficiency, short-term nitrogen starvation and ammonium (pages 2024–2037)

ANDERS L. B. MOLLER, PAI PEDAS, BIRGIT ANDERSEN, BIRTE SVENSSON, JAN K. SCHJOERRING and CHRISTINE FINNIE


Enhanced zinc uptake by rice through phytosiderophore secretion: a modelling study (pages 2038–2046)

MARIYA PTASHNYK, TIINA ROOSE, DAVEY L. JONES and GUY J. D. KIRK


Changes in leaf optical properties associated with light-dependent chloroplast movements (pages 2047–2059)

PHILLIP A. DAVIS, STEVEN CAYLOR, CRAIG W. WHIPPO and ROGER P. HANGARTER


Dinitrogen-fixing Acacia species from phosphorus-impoverished soils resorb leaf phosphorus efficiently (pages 2060–2070)

HONGHUA HE, TIM M. BLEBY, ERIK J. VENEKLAAS and HANS LAMBERS


Physiological characterization of cadmium-exposed Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (pages 2071–2082)

ANJA BRÄUTIGAM, DIRK SCHAUMLÖFFEL, HUGUES PREUD'HOMME, IRIS THONDORF and DIRK WESENBERG


Leaf gas films of Spartina anglica enhance rhizome and root oxygen during tidal submergence (pages 2083–2092)

ANDERS WINKEL, TIMOTHY DAVID COLMER and OLE PEDERSEN


Potassium channel-oxidative phosphorylation relationship in durum wheat mitochondria from control and hyperosmotic-stressed seedlings (pages 2093–2108)

DANIELA TRONO, MARIO SOCCIO, MAURA N. LAUS and DONATO PASTORE


Down-regulation of SymRK correlates with a deficiency in vascular bundle development in Phaseolus vulgaris nodules (pages 2109–2121)

ROSANA SÁNCHEZ-LÓPEZ, DAVID JÁUREGUI, NOREIDE NAVA, XÓCHITL ALVARADO-AFFANTRANGER, JESÚS MONTIEL, OLIVIA SANTANA, FEDERICO SANCHEZ and CARMEN QUINTO


Novel temporal, fine-scale and growth variation phenotypes in roots of adult-stage maize (Zea mays L.) in response to low nitrogen stress (pages 2122–2137)

AMELIE C. M. GAUDIN, SARAH A. MCCLYMONT, BRIDGET M. HOLMES, ERIC LYONS and MANISH N. RAIZADA


A de novo synthesis citrate transporter, Vigna umbellata multidrug and toxic compound extrusion, implicates in Al-activated citrate efflux in rice bean (Vigna umbellata) root apex (pages 2138–2148)

XIAO YING YANG, JIAN LI YANG, YUAN ZHOU, MIGUEL A. PINEROS, LEON V. KOCHIAN, GUI XIN LI and SHAO JIAN ZHENG


Three-dimensional xylem networks and phyllode properties of co-occurring Acacia (pages 2149–2158)

GERALD F. M. PAGE, JIE LIU and PAULINE F. GRIERSON


JA-Ile signalling in Solanum nigrum is not required for defence responses in nature (pages 2159–2171)

ARJEN VANDOORN, GUSTAVO BONAVENTURE, ILANA ROGACHEV, ASAPH AHARONI and IAN T. BALDWIN


Active ROP2 GTPase inhibits ABA- and CO2-induced stomatal closure (pages 2172–2182)

JAE-UNG HWANG, BYEONG WOOK JEON, DAEWOONG HONG and YOUNGSOOK LEE


Using a biochemical C4 photosynthesis model and combined gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence measurements to estimate bundle-sheath conductance of maize leaves differing in age and nitrogen content (pages 2183–2199)

XINYOU YIN, ZHOUPING SUN, PAUL C. STRUIK, PETER E. L. VAN DER PUTTEN, WIM VAN IEPEREN and JEREMY HARBINSON


Whole organ, venation and epidermal cell morphological variations are correlated in the leaves of Arabidopsis mutants (pages 2200–2211)

JOSÉ MANUEL PÉREZ-PÉREZ, SILVIA RUBIO-DÍAZ, STIJN DHONDT, DIANA HERNÁNDEZ-ROMERO, JOAQUÍN SÁNCHEZ-SORIANO, GERRIT T. S. BEEMSTER, MARÍA ROSA PONCE and JOSÉ LUIS MICOL


Overexpression of constitutively active Arabidopsis RabG3b promotes xylem development in transgenic poplars (pages 2212–2224)

SOON IL KWON, HONG JOO CHO, JAE-SOON LEE, HYUNJUNG JIN, SOO-JEONG SHIN, MI KWON, EUN WOON NOH and OHKMAE K. PARK


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