Table of Contents

Volume 5, Issue 2

  February 2010

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Perspectives

• Recent surprising similarities between plant cells and neurons

  František Baluška
  

Short Communication

• The plant as a biomechatronic system

  Barbara Mazzolai, Cecilia Laschi, Paolo Dario, Sergio Mugnai and Stefano Mancuso
  

Mini-Review

• Probing the actin-auxin oscillator

  Peter Nick
  

Reviews

• Functional diversity of the plant glycine-rich proteins superfamily

  Amanda Mangeon, Ricardo Magrani Junqueira and Gilberto Sachetto-Martins
  

• Redox-regulation of protein import into chloroplasts and mitochondria: Similarities and differences

  Anna Stengel, J. Philipp Benz, Jürgen Soll and Bettina Bölter
  

Research Paper

• Thermo and pH stable ATP-independent chaperone activity of heat-inducible Hsp70 from Pennisetum glaucum

  J.L. Uma Maheswar Rao, Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy, Rabi N. Mishra, Dinesh Gupta, Dinkar Sahal, Narendra Tuteja, Sudhir K. Sopory and Malireddy K. Reddy
  

Article Addenda

• Thigmomorphogenesis in Solanum lycopersicum: Morphological and biochemical responses in stem after mechanical stimulation

  Issam Saidi, Saïda Ammar, Nathalie Demont-CauletSaïda, Johanne Thévenin, Catherine Lapierre, Sadok Bouzid and Lise Jouanin
  

• Mitochondrial protease AtFtsH4 protects ageing Arabidopsis rosettes against oxidative damage under short-day photoperiod

  Marta Kicia, Edyta M. Gola and Hanna Janska
  

• Is there leaderless protein secretion in plants?

  Fang-yi Cheng and John D. Williamson
  

• The ever expanding role of aquaglyceroporins: Confirmation of protein-facilitated boron transport

  Kate L. Fitzpatrick and Robert Reid
  

• Similarities and differences between phytochrome-mediated growth inhibition of coleoptiles and seminal roots in rice seedlings

  Hisayo Shimizu, Tomoko Shinomura and Kotaro T. Yamamoto
  

• Rice plants response to the disruption of OsCSLD4 gene

  Rui Li, Guangyan Xiong, Baocai Zhang and Yihua Zhou
  

• Brassinosteroid negatively regulates jasmonate inhibition of root growth in Arabidopsis

  Ying Huang, Chengyun Han, Wen Peng, Zhihong Peng, Xingyao Xiong, Qi Zhu, Bida Gao, Daoxin Xie and Chunmei Ren
  

• Radical-induced cell death1 and similar to RCD one1 and the stress-induced morphogenetic response

  Sachin Teotia, Sivaramakrishnan Muthuswamy and Rebecca Lamb
  

• Co-localization of mitochondria with chloroplasts is a light-dependent reversible response

  Md. Sayeedul Islam and Shingo Takagi
  

• Role of cytokinin responsive two-component system in ABA and osmotic stress signalings

  Lam-Son Phan Tran, Kazuo Shinozaki and Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
  

• In vivo subcellular targeting analysis validates a novel peroxisome targeting signal type 2 and the peroxisomal localization of two proteins with putative functions in defense in Arabidopsis

  Sheng Quan, Robert Switzenberg, Sigrun Reumann and Jianping Hu
  

• Plant SUN domain proteins: Components of putative plant LINC complexes?

  Katja Graumann and David E. Evans
  

• Dual regulation of iron deficiency response mediated by the transcription factor IDEF1

  Takanori Kobayashi, Hiromi Nakanishi and Naoko K. Nishizawa
  

• The PP2C–SnRK2 complex: The central regulator of an abscisic acid signaling pathway

  Takashi Hirayama and Taishi Umezawa
  

• The evolution of the regulatory mechanism of chloroplast division

  Kumiko Okazaki, Yukihiro Kabeya and Shin-ya Miyagishima
  

• RFC3 regulates cell proliferation and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis

  Shitou Xia, Langtao Xiao, Patrick Gannon and Xin Li
  

• Arabidopsis glutathione reductase 1 is dually targeted to peroxisomes and the cytosol

  Amr R. A. Kataya and Sigrun Reumann
  

• Microgravity environment uncouples cell growth and cell proliferation in root meristematic cells: The mediator role of auxin

  Francisco Javier Medina and Raúl Herranz
  

• Structural features of plant subtilases

  Rolf Rose, Andreas Schaller and Christian Ottmann
  

• Subcellular localization and turnover of Arabidopsis phototropin 1

  Stuart Sullivan, Eirini Kaiserli, Tong-Seung Tseng and John M. Christie
  

• Sequence divergences between cyst nematode effector protein orthologs may contribute to host specificity

  Tarek Hewezi and Thomas J. Baum
  

• AtTZF gene family localizes to cytoplasmic foci

  Marcelo Pomeranz, Pei-Chi Lin, John Finer and Jyan-Chyun Jang
  

• Evolution of serine carboxypeptidase-like acyltransferases in the monocots

  Sam T Mugford and Anne Osbourn
  

• New insights into the retrograde signaling pathway between the plastids and the nucleus

  Tomohiro Kakizaki and Takehito Inaba
  

• Shedding light on the role of AT-hook/PPC domain protein in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Kian-Hong Ng and Toshiro Ito
  

• Positioning of the auxin maximum affects the character of cells occupying the root stem cell niche

  Keni Jiang and Lewis J. Feldman
  

• Hormone-mediated promotion of trichome initiation in plants is conserved but utilizes species and trichome-specific regulatory mechanisms

  Lies Maes and Alain Goossens