JOURNAL

Contents

Editorial Overview

Plant science up-to-date

Yasuyuki Yamada. . . . . . . 353 [PDF]

Metabolism

Carbon metabolism in the Calvin capacity

Masahiro Tamoi, Miki Nagaoka, Yukinori Yabuta, Shigeru Shigeoka. . . . . . . 355 [PDF]

Cyclic electron transport through photosystem I

Yuri Munekage, Toshiharu Shikanai. . . . . . . 361 [PDF]

Transcription factors for sugar-inducible genes

Atsushi Morikami, Takeshi Masaki, Hironaka Tsukagoshi, Naoko Mitsui, Ken-ichiro Maeo, Kenzo Nakamura. . . . . . . 371 [PDF]

Dynamics of methionine biosynthesis

Derek B. Goto, Hitoshi Onouchi, Satoshi Naito. . . . . . . 379 [PDF]

Molecular regulation of nicotine biosynthesis

Akira Katoh, Hiroyuki Ohki, Koji Inai, Takashi Hashimoto. . . . . . . 389 [PDF]

Development

Regulation of lateral root formation by auxin signaling in Arabidopsis

Hidehiro Fukaki, Yoko Okushima, Masao Tasaka. . . . . . . 393 [PDF]

Signaling crosstalk between ethylene and other molecules

Mineko Konishi, Shuichi Yanagisawa. . . . . . . 401 [PDF]

Biosynthesis of chromophores for phytochrome and related photoreceptors

Takayuki Kohchi, Hideo Kataoka, Philip J. Linley. . . . . . . 409 [PDF]

Plant mitochondrial fission and fusion

Shin-ichi Arimura and Nobuhiro Tsutsumi. . . . . . . 415 [PDF]

Stress response

Oxidative stress and plant cell death suppressors

Maki Kawai-Yamada, Keiko Yoshinaga, Taro Ogawa, Yuri Ihara-Ohor, Hirofumi Uchimiya. . . . . . . 419 [PDF]

Trienoic fatty acids and stress responses in higher plants

Osamu Matsuda, Koh Iba. . . . . . . 423 [PDF]

Gene technology

RNAi and functional genomics

Fumihiko Sato. . . . . . . 431 [PDF]

Dissection of gene function by RNA silencing

S. M. Shahinul Islam, Takahiro Miyazaki, Fuminori Tanno, Kimiko Itoh. . . . . . . 443 [PDF]

RNA silencing suppressors encoded by viruses of the family Tombusviridae

Atsushi Takeda, Kazuyuki Mise, Tetsuro Okuno. . . . . . . 447 [PDF]

High-throughput functional screening of plant and pathogen genes in planta

Ryohei Terauchi, Khairun Hisam Bin Nasir, Akiko Ito, Hiromasa Saitoh, Thomas Berberich, Yoshihiro Takahashi. . . . . . . 455 [PDF]

Genetic engineering

Metabolic engineering of caffeine production

Shinjiro Ogita, Hirotaka Uefuji, Masayuki Morimoto, Hiroshi Sano. . . . . . . 461 [PDF]

Production of male sterile transgenic plants

Keita Takada, Hiroshi Kamada, Hiroshi Ezura. . . . . . . 469 [PDF]

Improving salt tolerance in plant cells

Hideki Nakayama, Tomoaki Horie, Ikuko Yonamine, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Kazuya Yoshida. . . . . . . 477 [PDF]

Ecology

Toward predicting gene flow in plant populations

Izumi Washitani, Fumiko Ishihama, Ayako Shimono, Miho Ajima Nishihiro. . . . . . . 489 [PDF]

Evaluation of gene flow and its environmental effects in the field

Mikihisa Umehara, Ikue Eguchi, Daisuke Kaneko, Michiyuki Ono, Hiroshi Kamada. . . . . . . 497 [PDF]

Changing concepts of a plant: current knowledge on plant diversity and evolution

Isao Inouye, Noriko Okamoto. . . . . . . 505 [PDF]

Global political, economic, social and technological issues on trasngenic crops

Kazuo N. Watanabe, Yoshiko Sassa, Eiko Suda, Chia-Hsin Chen, Masakazu Inaba, Akira Kikuchi. . . . . . . 515 [PDF]