JOURNAL

Contents

Preface

Editorial Overview

GMO research in Japan – the state of the art

Hiromichi Morikawa. . . . . . . 3 [PDF]

Horticulture

Molecular characterization of the flavonoid biosynthesis of Verbena hybrida and the functional analysis of verbena and Clitoria ternatea F3’5’H genes in transgenic verbena

Junichi Togami, Mihoko Tamura, Kanako Ishiguro, Chika Hirose, Hiroaki Okuhara, Yukiko Ueyama, Noriko Nakamura, Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Ken-ichi Suzuki, Yuko Fukui, Takaaki Kusumi, Yoshikazu Tanaka. . . . . . . 5 [PDF]

RNAi suppression of the anthocyanidin synthase gene in Torenia hybrida yields white flowers with higher frequency and better stability than antisense and sense suppression

Noriko Nakamura, Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Kenichi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Tanaka. . . . . . . 13 [PDF]

Molecular characterization of the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway and flower color modification of Nierembergia sp

Yukiko Ueyama, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Yuko Fukui, Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Hideo Ohkawa, Takaaki Kusumi, Takashi Iwashita, Yoshikazu Tanaka. . . . . . . 19 [PDF]

Dominant inheritance of white-flowered and herbicide-resistant traits in transgenic gentian plants

Masahiro Nishihara, Takashi Nakatsuka, Keizo Hosokawa, Takahide Yokoi, Yoshiko Abe, Kei-ichiro Mishiba, Saburo Yamamura. . . . . . . 25 [PDF]

Production of dwarf potted gentian using wild-type Agrobacterium rhizogenes

Kei-ichiro Mishiba, Masahiro Nishihara, Yoshiko Abe, Takashi Nakatsuka, Hiromi Kawamura, Katsuo Kodama, Toshikazu Takesawa, Jun Abe, Saburo Yamamura. . . . . . . 33 [PDF]

Crop improvement

Transgenic rice for animal feed with high tryptophan content generated by a selectable marker- and vector backbone-free technology

Akira Komatsu, Miki Ohtake, Hisakazu Hasegawa, Teruhiko Terakawa, Kyo Wakasa. . . . . . . 39 [PDF]

Improvement of nitrate- and nitrite-dependent growth of rice by the introduction of a constitutively expressing chloroplastic nitrite transporter

Sustiprijatno, Miwa Sugiura, Kenユichi Ogawa, Masaaki Takahashi. . . . . . . 47 [PDF]

Expression of an enhancin gene from the Trichoplusia ni granulosis virus confers resistance to lepidopterous insect pests to rice

Mari Mori, Harushige Kitamura, Atsushi Kondo, Koji Dohi, Masashi Mori, Masanori Kaido, Kazuyuki Mise, Eiichi Shimojyo, Yoshifumi Hashimoto. . . . . . . 55 [PDF]

Genetic studies of transgenic rice plants overproducing an antibacterial peptide show that a high level of transgene expression did not cause inferior effects on host plants

Ichiro Mitsuhara, Osamu Yatou, Takayoshi Iwai, Yumi Naito, Yoshiko Nawa, Yuko Ohashi. . . . . . . 63 [PDF]

Resistance to insects in transgenic Solanum plants expressing a peroxidase gene from horseradish

Masao Tsuduki, Toshiyuki Takano, Fumiaki Nakatsubo, Kazuya Yoshida, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Hiroshi Asao. . . . . . . 71 [PDF]

Improvement of environmental stress tolerance of sweet potato by introduction of genes for spermidine synthase

Yoshihisa Kasukabe, Lixiong He, Yuriko Watakabe, Motoyasu Otani, Takiko Shimada, Shoji Tachibana. . . . . . . 75 [PDF]

Increase of amylose content of sweetpotato starch by RNA interference of the starch branching enzyme II gene (IbSBEII)

Takiko Shimada, Motoyasu Otani, Tatsuro Hamada, Sun-Hyung Kim. . . . . . . 85 [PDF]

Materials production

Production of biologically active human interferon-α in transgenic rice

Takehiro Masumura, Satoshi Morita, Yoshiyuki Miki, Akihiro Kurita, Shigeto Morita, Hiroyuki Shirono, Junichi Koga, Kunisuke Tanaka. . . . . . . 91 [PDF]

Hybrid fiber production: a wood and plastic combination in transgenic rice and Tamarix made by accumulating poly-3-hydroxybutyrate

Noboru Endo, Kouki Yoshida, Miho Akiyoshi, Sumihide Manji. . . . . . . 99 [PDF]

Pytoremediation

Genetic engineering of nitrite reductase gene improves uptake and assimilation of nitrogen dioxide by Rhaphiolepis umbellata (Thunb.) Makino

Jun Shigeto, Sanae Yoshihara, Suaad E.H. Adam, Kuni Sueyoshi, Atsushi Sakamoto, Hiromichi Morikawa, Misa Takahashi. . . . . . . 111 [PDF]

Efficient assimilation of sulfide by transgenic rice plants over-expressing a rice cysteine synthase

Yube Yamaguchi, Tatsuo Nakamura, Yuko Tatsumi, Kimiyo Nakamura, Hiroshi Sano. . . . . . . 117 [PDF]

Regeneration and genetic engineering of a tropical tree, Azadirachta excelsa

Masayuki Morimoto, Kentaro Nakamura, Hiroshi Sano. . . . . . . 123 [PDF]

Safety assessment

Reducing gene flow from pollen dispersal of genetically modified plants in special screened greenhouses

Shin Watanabe, Tsunenori Sano, Hiroshi Kamada, Hiroshi Ezura. . . . . . . 129 [PDF]

Soil microbial community analysis in the environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants

Seishi Ikeda, Nozomi Ytow, Hiroshi Ezura, Kiwamu Minamisawa, Tatsuhito Fujimura. . . . . . . 137 [PDF]