JOURNAL

Contents

Reviews

Physiological functions of plant DNA methyltransferases

Yuko Wada. . . . . . . 71 [PDF]

Applications of biotechnology for improvement of millet crops: Review of progress and future prospects

S. L. Kothari, Satish Kumar, R. K. Vishnoi, A. Kothari, Kazuo N. Watanabe. . . . . . . 81 [PDF]

Original Papers

Enhanced expression of CYP2C9 and tolerance to sulfonylurea herbicides in transgenic rice plants

Sakiko Hirose, Hiroyuki Kawahigashi, Tomomi Inoue, Hideyuki Inui, Hideo Ohkawa, Yasunobu Ohkawa. . . . . . . 89 [PDF]

Suitability of small and branching sunflower varieties for molecular genetic experiments and their transformation by Agrobacterium infection

Miho Ikeda, Masatoshi Matsumura, Hiroshi Kamada. . . . . . . 97 [PDF]

Simple cryopreservation protocol with an encapsulation technique for tobacco BY-2 suspension cell cultures

Toshihiro Kobayashi, Takao Niino, Masatomo Kobayashi. . . . . . . 105 [PDF]

Establishment of Rhizobium-mediated transformation of Coptis japonica and molecular analyses of transgenic plants

Nobukazu Shitan, Fumiyuki Kiuchi, Fumihiko Sato, Kazufumi Yazaki, Kayo Yoshimatsu. . . . . . . 113 [PDF]

Callus and cell suspension culture of bamboo plant, Phyllostachys nigra

Shinjiro Ogita. . . . . . . 119 [PDF]

Function of the rice gp91phox homologs OsrbohA and OsrbohE genes in ROS-dependent plant immune responses

Yoshiaki Yoshie, Kazunori Goto, Ryota Takai, Megumi Iwano, Seiji Takayama, Akira Isogai, Fang-Sik Che. . . . . . . 127 [PDF]

Short Communications

TJ1 is an orientation-independent transformation enhancer sequence

Hiroo Hokazono, Misa Takahashi, Atsushi Sakamoto, Hiromichi Morikawa. . . . . . . 137 [PDF]

Doubled haploid plant production of transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.) using anther culture

Motoyasu Otani, Yoichi Wakita, Takiko Shimada. . . . . . . 141 [PDF]

Synthesis of Rubisco gene products is upregulated by increasing the copy number of rbcL gene in Chlamydomonas chloroplast genome, without increased accumulation of the two Rubisco subunits

Hidenobu Uchida, Kyoichi Isono, Ken-Ich Tomizawa, Megumi Iwano, Hirofumi Yamashita, Hideya Fukuzawa, Kanji Ohyama, Akiho Yokota. . . . . . . 145 [PDF]

Notes

Multi-color luciferases as reporters for monitoring transient gene expression in higher plants

Rieko Ogura, Naoko Matsuo, Nao Wako, Tsuneyuki Tanaka, Sachiko Ono, Kazuyuki Hiratsuka. . . . . . . 151 [PDF]

A novel basic pathogenesis-related protein from tobacco plants

Kenji Akiyama, Hirokazu Ueda, Hiroshi Yoda, Hiroshi Sano . . . . . . . 157 [PDF]

Expressed sequence tags of full-length cDNA clones from the miniature tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cultivar Micro-Tom

Taneaki Tsugane, Manabu Watanabe, Kentaro Yano, Nozomu Sakurai, Hideyuki Suzuki, Daisuke Shibata. . . . . . . 161 [PDF]

Phytoremediators from abandoned rice field

Misa Takahashi, Shigehumi Tsukamoto, Atsumi Kawaguchi, Atsushi Sakamoto, Hiromichi Morikawa. . . . . . . 167 [PDF]

Instructions for Contributors to Plant Biotechnology