JOURNAL

Contents

Editorial Overview

Secondary metabolism in plant biotechnology

Kazufumi Yazaki. . . . . . . 317

Review

Controlled salicylic acid levels and corresponding signaling mechanisms in plants

Tomonori Kawano, Takuya Furuichi, Shoshi Muto. . . . . . . 319 [PDF]

Original Papers

Regeneration of transformed Ophiorrhiza pumila plants producing camptothecin

Ikumi Watase, Hiroshi Sudo, Mami Yamazaki, Kazuki Saito. . . . . . . 337 [PDF]

Cloning and characterization of glucosyltransferase cDNA from Eucalyptus perriniana cultured cells

Shigeyuki Nagashima, Satoko Tomo, Yutaka Orihara, Takafumi Yoshikawa. . . . . . . 343 [PDF]

Expressed sequence tags from callus of Euphorbia tirucalli : A resource for genes involved in triterpenoid and sterol biosynthesis

Masataka Kajikawa, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Yoshito Kohzu, Ryoko Sakata, Hideya Fukuzawa, Hidenobu Uchida, Kanji Ohyama. . . . . . . 349 [PDF]

Metabolism of administered (2RS )-naringenin in flavonoid-producing cultured cells of Sophora flavescens

Hirobumi Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuribayashi, Yasuharu Seshima, Ping Zhao, Isao Kouno, Goro Taguchi, Koichiro Shimomura. . . . . . . 355 [PDF]

Alkaloid production by somatic embryo cultures of Corydalis ambigua

Noboru Hiraoka, Indra Dutt Bhatt, Yuko Sakurai, Jung-In Chang. . . . . . . 361 [PDF]

Cloning and heterologous expression of cDNAs encoding flavonoid glucosyltransferases from Dianthus caryophyllus

Jun Ogata, Yoshio Itoh, Madoka Ishida, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Yoshihiro Ozeki. . . . . . . 367 [PDF]

Flower color modification of Petunia hybrida commercial varieties by metabolic engineering

Shinzo Tsuda, Yuko Fukui, Noriko Nakamura, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Kazuyuki Ohira, Yukiko Ueyama, Hideo Ohkawa, Timothy A. Holton, Takaaki Kusumi, Yoshikazu Tanaka. . . . . . . 377 [PDF]

Anthocyanin production in adventitious root cultures of Raphanus sativus L. cv. Peking Koushin

Fumie Betsui, Norie Tanaka-Nishikawa, Koichiro Shimomura. . . . . . . 387 [PDF]

Short Communications

Elicitor-induced rosmarinic acid biosynthesis in Lithospermum erythrorhizon cell suspension cultures: Activities of rosmarinic acid synthase and the final two cytochrome P450-catalyzed hydroxylations

Ayako Ogata, Ayako Tsuruga, Michiyo Matsuno, Hajime Mizukami. . . . . . . 393 [PDF]

Plant regeneration from internode explants of Euphorbia tirucalli

Hidenobu Uchida, Osamu Nakayachi, Motoyasu Otani, Masataka Kajikawa, Yoshihito Kohzu, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Hideya Fukuzawa, Takiko Shimada, Kanji Ohyama. . . . . . . 397 [PDF]

Notes

Effects of sucrose on anthocyanin production in hypocotyl of two radish (Raphanus sativus ) varieties

Masakazu Hara, Karin Oki, Kyoko Hoshino, Toru Kuboi. . . . . . . 401 [PDF]

Biotransformation of (+)-catechin by plant cultured cells of Eucalyptus perriniana

Shuichi Otani, Yoko Kondo, Yoshihisa Asada, Tsutomu Furuya, Hatsuyuki Hamada, Nobuyoshi Nakajima, Kohji Ishihara, Hiroki Hamada. . . . . . . 407 [PDF]

Effect of medium composition on the production of anthocyanins by hairy root cultures of Ipomoea batatas

Yasutaka Nishiyama, Takashi Yamakawa. . . . . . . 411 [PDF]

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