1. Indole-3-acetic acid biosynthesis in Aciculosporium take, a causal agent of witches' broom of bamboo

   • Eiji Tanaka
   • Chihiro Tanaka
   • Mitsuya Tsuda

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 1 - 6

2. Microscopic detection of reactive oxygen species generation in the compatible and incompatible interactions of Alternaria alternata Japanese pear pathotype and host plants

   • Takeshi Shinogi
   • Tomoko Suzuki
   • Pyoyun Park

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 7 - 16

3. Ratio of rice reflectance for estimating leaf blast severity with a multispectral radiometer

   • Takashi Kobayashi
   • Eiji Kanda
   • Yoichi Torigoe

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 17 - 22

4. Race 3, a new race of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae determined by a differential system with commercial cultivars

   • Masashi Fujinaga
   • Hideki Ogiso
   • Mineo Kojima

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 23 - 28

5. Addition of Pestalotiopsis spp. to leaf spot pathogens of Japanese persimmon

   • Fumitoshi Yasuda
   • Takao Kobayashi
   • Hiroki Izawa

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 29 - 32

6. Cloning and characterization of pea apyrases: involvement of PsAPY1 in response to signal molecules from the pea pathogen Mycosphaerella pinodes

   • Tomoharu Kawahara
   • Kazuhiro Toyoda
   • Tomonori Shiraishi

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 33 - 38

7. New race of Phytophthora vignae f. sp. adzukicola, the causal agent of Phytophthora stem rot of the adzuki bean

   • Ayumi Notsu
   • Norio Kondo
   • Shigeo Naito

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 39 - 41

8. Helicobasidium mompa isolates from sweet potato in continuous monoculture fields

   • Yukari Uetake
   • Hitoshi Nakamura
   • Naoyuki Matsumoto

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 42 - 44

9. Distinguishable staining with neutral red for GFP-marked and GFP-nonmarked Fusarium oxysporum strains simultaneously colonizing root surfaces

   • Teruo Nonomura
   • Hiromi Tajima
   • Hideyoshi Toyoda

   FUNGAL DISEASE Pages: 45 - 48

10. d-Alanine-d-alanine ligase gene (ddl) of Erwinia chrysanthemi strain EC16 II: analysis of pectate lyase regulation using ddl ⁻ mutant

    • Pongphen Jitareerat
    • Hiroyuki Matsumoto
    • Shinji Tsuyumu

    BACTERIAL AND PHYTOPLASMA DISEASE Pages: 49 - 54

11. Nucleotide sequence of the coat protein gene of Mirafiori lettuce virus

    • Yoichi Kawazu
    • Takahide Sasaya
    • Tomohide Natsuaki

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASE Pages: 55 - 60

12. Yellowing disease of tomatoes caused by Tomato infectious chlorosis virus newly recognized in Japan

    • Sedyo Hartono
    • Tomohide Natsuaki
    • Seiichi Okuda

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASE Pages: 61 - 64

13. Multiplication of isolate R-5 of Streptomyces galbus on rhododendron leaves and its production of cell wall-degrading enzymes

    • Hidetoshi Minamiyama
    • Masafumi Shimizu
    • Ryuji Yoshida

    DISEASE CONTROL Pages: 65 - 70

14. Induced systemic resistance of Chinese cabbage to bacterial leaf spot and Alternaria leaf spot by the root endophytic fungus, Heteroconium chaetospira

    • Soichiro Morita
    • Mikiko Azuma
    • Teruyoshi Hashiba

    DISEASE CONTROL Pages: 71 - 75

15. cDNA microarray analysis of gene expression in rice plants treated with probenazole, a chemical inducer of disease resistance

    • Masaki Shimono
    • Junshi Yazaki
    • Masamichi Nishiguchi

    DISEASE CONTROL Pages: 76 - 82

16. Role of the α subunit of heterotrimeric G-protein in probenazole-inducing defense signaling in rice

    • Michiaki Iwata
    • Kenji Umemura
    • Yukimoto Iwasaki

    DISEASE CONTROL Pages: 83 - 86

17. Characterization of a phytoplasma associated with witches' broom disease of potatoes in Korea

    • Hee-Young Jung
    • Young-Il Hahm
    • Shigetou Namba

    DISEASE NOTE Pages: 87 - 89