Table of Contents

Volume 7, Issue 2

  February 2012

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PERSPECTIVES

The root as a drill: An ethylene-auxin interaction facilitates root penetration in soil

Parankusam Santisree, Sapana Nongmaithem, Yellamaraju Sreelakshmi, Maria Ivanchenko and Rameshwar Sharma





SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

A role for mechanosensitive channels in chloroplast and bacterial fission

Margaret Wilson and Elizabeth Haswell


Neofunctionalization within the Omp85 protein superfamily during chloroplast evolution

Mats Töpel, Qihua Ling and Paul Jarvis


Metabolism and roles of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate in pollen development and pollen tube growth in arabidopsis

Xin-Qi Gao and Xian Sheng Zhang


ELF3 recruitment to the PRR9 promoter requires other Evening Complex members in the Arabidopsis circadian clock

Brenda Y. Chow, Anne Helfer, Dmitri A. Nusinow and Steve A. Kay


NO serves as a signaling intermediate downstream of H₂O₂ to modulate dynamic microtubule cytoskeleton during responses to VD-toxins in Arabidopsis

Lin-Lin Yao, Bao-Lei Pei, Qun Zhou and Ying-Zhang Li


Arabidopsis growth and defense are modulated by bacterial quorum sensing molecules

Sebastian T. Schenk, Elke Stein, Karl-Heinz Kogel and Adam Schikora


The Mediator complex subunit 8 regulates organ size in Arabidopsis thaliana

Ran Xu and Yunhai Li


Identification of the protein sequence of the type III effector XopD from the B100 strain of Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris

Joanne Canonne, Carole Pichereaux, Daniel Marino, Dominique Roby, Michel Rossignol and Susana Rivas


MBF1s regulate ABA-dependent germination of Arabidopsis seeds

María Florencia Di Mauro, María José Iglesias, Débora Pamela Arce, Estela Marta Valle, Roberto Benech Arnold, Kenichi Tsuda, Ken-ichi Yamazaki, Claudia Anahí Casalongué and Andrea Verónica Godoy


Role of H2O2 in pea seed germination

Gregorio Barba-Espín, José Antonio Hernández and Pedro Diaz-Vivancos


Nitric oxide: An emerging regulator of cell elongation during primary root growth

María Fernández-Marcos, Luis Sanz and Óscar Lorenzo


Moonlighting kinases with guanylate cyclase activity can tune regulatory signal networks

Helen R. Irving, Lusisizwe Kwezi, Janet Wheeler and Chris Gehring


Is there a role for trihelix transcription factors in embryo maturation?

Melissa L. Barr, Matthew R. Willmann and Pablo D. Jenik





MINI-REVIEWS

Role of glutathione in plant signaling under biotic stress

Carole Dubreuil-Maurizi and Benoît Poinssot


Complex regulation of an R gene SNC1 revealed by auto-immune mutants

Mingyue Gou and Jian Hua


Bacterial effectors target the plant cell nucleus to subvert host transcription

Joanne Canonne and Susana Rivas





REVIEWS

Plant communication: Mediated by individual or blended VOCs?

Hirokazu Ueda, Yukio Kikuta and Kazuhiko Matsuda


HAM proteins promote organ indeterminacy: But how?

Eric M. Engstrom





RESEARCH PAPERS

Gene expression profiling through microarray analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana colonized by Pseudomonas putida MTCC5279, a plant growth promoting rhizobacterium

Suchi Srivastava, Vasvi Chaudhry, Aradhana Mishra, Puneet Singh Chauhan, Ateequr Rehman, Archana Yadav, Narendra Tuteja and Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal


Identification of miRNAs in sorghum by using bioinformatics approach

Amit Katiyar, Shuchi Smita, Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Dev Mani Pandey and Kailash Chander Bansal





ARTICLE ADDENDA

From systems biology to photosynthesis and whole-plant physiology: A conceptual model for integrating multi-scale networks

David J. Weston, Paul J. Hanson, Richard J. Norby, Gerald A. Tuskan and Stan D. Wullschleger


Experimental and statistical post-validation of positive example EST sequences carrying peroxisome targeting signals type 1 (PTS1)

Thomas Lingner, Amr R. A. Kataya and Sigrun Reumann


Plastid DNA in the nucleus—new genes for old

Mathieu Rousseau-Gueutin, Michael A. Ayliffe and Jeremy N. Timmis


BiP links TOR signaling to ER stress in Chlamydomonas

José L. Crespo


The ABA-INSENSITIVE-4 (ABI4) transcription factor links redox, hormone and sugar signaling pathways

Christine H. Foyer, Pavel I Kerchev and Robert D. Hancock


Circadian rhythms in biologically closed electrical circuits of plants

Alexander G. Volkov, Astian J. Waite, Joseph D. Wooten and Vladislav S. Markin


The FEI2-SOS5 pathway and CELLULOSE SYNTHASE 5 are required for cellulose biosynthesis in the Arabidopsis seed coat and affect pectin mucilage structure

Smadar Harpaz-Saad, Tamara L. Western and Joseph J. Kieber


Mechanisms for calcium sensing receptor-regulated stomatal closure in response to the extracellular calcium signal

Wen-Hua Wang and Hai-Lei Zheng


Does CK2 affect flowering time by modulating the autonomous pathway in Arabidopsis?

Jidnyasa Jayant Mulekar and Enamul Huq


Adaptive radiation with regard to nutrient sequestration strategies in the carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes

Andrej Pavlovič


An emerging role of pectic rhamnogalacturonanII for cell wall integrity

Rebecca Reboul and Raimund Tenhaken