Table of Contents

Volume 3, Issue 12

  December 2008

  Pages 1037 - 1145

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Short Communication

• Comprehensive analysis of protein-protein interactions between Arabidopsis MAPKs and MAPK kinases helps define potential MAPK signalling modules

  Jin Suk Lee, Kyung Won Huh, Apurva Bhargava and Brian E. Ellis
  Pages 1037 - 1041

Mini-Reviews

• Heterotrimeric G-protein signaling in Arabidopsis: Puzzling G-protein-coupled receptor

  Jin-Gui Chen
  Pages 1042 - 1045

• Abscisic acid and the pre-harvest sprouting in cereals

  Jun Fang and Chengcai Chu
  Pages 1046 - 1048

• A new family of plant E3 ubiquitin ligases

  Yu Zhang, Suhua Feng, William Terzaghi and Xing Wang Deng
  Pages 1049 - 1052

Reviews

• Right place, right time: Spatiotemporal light regulation of plant growth and development

  Open Access Article

  Beronda L. Montgomery
  Pages 1053 - 1060

• Plant polyamine catabolism: The state of the art

  Panagiotis N. Moschou, Konstantinos A. Paschalidis and Kalliopi A. Roubelakis-Angelakis
  Pages 1061 - 1066

• A sweet cycle for Arabidopsis G-proteins: Recent discoveries and controversies in plant G-protein signal transduction

  Christopher A. Johnston, Melinda D. Willard, Adam J. Kimple, David P. Siderovski and Francis S. Willard
  Pages 1067 - 1076

Research Papers

• CAPRICE positively regulates stomatal formation in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl

  Open Access Article

  Laura Serna
  Pages 1077 - 1082

• Leaf movements of bean plants and lunar gravity

  Peter W. Barlow, Emile Klingelé, Gunter Klein and Miroslav Mikulecký Sen
  Pages 1083 - 1090

Article Addenda

• Peptide signals for plant defense display a more universal role

  Open Access Article

  Gregory Pearce, Ramcharan Bhattacharya and Yu-Chi Chen
  Pages 1091 - 1092

• The galactolipid monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) contributes to photosynthesis-related processes in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Open Access Article

  Henrik Aronsson
  Pages 1093 - 1095

• The response of Arabidopsis root water transport to a challenging environment implicates reactive oxygen species- and phosphorylation-dependent internalization of aquaporins

  Yann Boursiac, Sodana Prak, Julie Boudet, Olivier Postaire, Doan-Trung Luu, Colette Tournaire-Roux, Véronique Santoni and Christophe Maurel
  Pages 1096 - 1098

• The effect of phospholipase Dα3 in Arabidopsis response to hyperosmotic stress and glucose

  Yueyun Hong, Xiangqing Pan, Ruth Welti and Xuemin Wang
  Pages 1099 - 1100

• Reactive oxygen species (ROS) as early signals in root hair cells responding to rhizobial nodulation factors

  Luis Cárdenas and Carmen Quinto
  Pages 1101 - 1102

• A Brassica juncea chitinase with two-chitin binding domains show anti-microbial properties against phytopathogens and gram-negative bacteria

  Y. Guan and Mee-Len Chye
  Pages 1103 - 1105

• The mitochondrial connection: Arginine degradation vs arginine conversion to nitric oxide

  Alejandro Tovar-Mendez, Christopher D. Todd and Joe C. Polacco
  Pages 1106 - 1108

• Identification of a putative receptor-ligand pair controlling cell separation in plants

  Open Access Article

  Grethe-Elisabeth Stenvik, Melinka A. Butenko and Reidunn B. Aalen
  Pages 1109 - 1110

• Cannabinoids act as necrosis-inducing factors in Cannabis sativa

  Yoshinari Shoyama, Chitomi Sugawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka and Satoshi Morimoto
  Pages 1111 - 1112

• Novel mechanisms of ethylene-gibberellin crosstalk revealed by the gai eto2-1 double mutant

  Liesbeth De Grauwe, Jasper Dugardeyn and Dominique Van Der Straeten
  Pages 1113 - 1115

• Photosynthetic acclimation to light gradients in plant stands comes out of shade

  Lars Dietzel and Thomas Pfannschmidt
  Pages 1116 - 1118

• Involvement of extracellular Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase in cotton fiber primary and secondary cell wall biosynthesis

  Hee Jin Kim and Barbara Triplett
  Pages 1119 - 1121

• Arabidopsis thaliana overexpressing glycolate oxidase in chloroplasts: H₂O₂-induced changes in primary metabolic pathways

  Holger Fahnenstich, Ulf-Ingo Flügge and Verónica G. Maurino
  Pages 1122 - 1125

• Effects of cell wall synthesis on cell polarity in the red alga Porphyra yezoensis

  Lin Li, Naotsune Saga and Koji Mikami
  Pages 1126 - 1128

• CDT retroelement: The stratagem to survive extreme vegetative dehydration

  Antonella Furini
  Pages 1129 - 1131

• Rhizospheric pseudomonads: Friends or foes?

  Thimmaraju Rudrappa and Harsh P. Bais
  Pages 1132 - 1133

• Two distinct Omp85 paralogs in the chloroplast outer envelope membrane are essential for embryogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Shih-Chi Hsu, Ramesh Patel, Jocelyn Bédard, Paul Jarvis and Kentaro Inoue
  Pages 1134 - 1135

• Dimerization and endocytosis of the sucrose transporter StSUT1 in mature sieve elements

  Johannes Liesche, Alexander Schulz, Undine Krügel, Bernhard Grimm and Christina Kühn
  Pages 1136 - 1137

• Vascular system is a node of systemic stress responses: Competence of the cell to synthesize abscisic acid and its responsiveness to external cues

  Akira Endo, Tomokazu Koshiba, Yuji Kamiya and Eiji Nambara
  Pages 1138 - 1140

• The role of isoprene in insect herbivory

  Jullada Laothawornkitkul, Nigel D. Paul, Claudia E. Vickers, Malcolm Possell, Philip M. Mullineaux, C. Nicholas Hewitt and Jane E. Taylor
  Pages 1141 - 1142

• Function of extracellular pyridine nucleotides in plant defense signaling

  Xudong Zhang and Zhonglin Mou
  Pages 1143 - 1145