1. ISPMB elections

   Cis and Trans Pages: 98 - 98

2. The CPGN: A brief history and deep appreciation

   • C.A.P.

   The Nomenclature and the Commission Pages: S2 - S3

3. News of the fourth congress

   Cis and Trans Pages: 98 - 98

4. A nomenclature for sequenced plant genes: A brief description

   • C.A.P.

   The Nomenclature and the Commission Pages: S4 - S9

5. Cosmid library ofChlamydomonas DNA

   Cis and Trans Pages: 99 - 99

6. Composition of the Commission

   Commission on Plant Gene Nomenclature Pages: S10 - S18

7. Expansion ofPMBR.ElecEd

   Cis and Trans Pages: 99 - 99

8. Nomenclature for catalase genes

   • Ken-ichi Higo
   • Christian Chevalier
   • Richard N. Trelease

   Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S19 - S21

9. CPGN supplement

   Cis and Trans Pages: 99 - 100

10. Plant chitinase genes

    • Frederick Meins
    • Bernard Fritig
    • John Ryals

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S22 - S28

11. Appointments and awards

    Announcement Pages: 100 - 100

12. Proposals for the naming of chloroplast genes. III. Nomenclature for open reading frames encoded in chloroplast genomes

    • Richard B. Hallick
    • Amos Bairoch

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S29 - S30

13. Improvement of DNA preparation and of PCR cycling in RAPD analysis of marine macroalgæ

    • M. Mejjad
    • F. Vedel
    • G. Ducreux

    Commentary Pages: 101 - 105

14. Nomenclature for genes encoding acyl carrier protein (ACP)

    • Penny von Wettstein-Knowles
    • Vic Knauf
    • Ginette Souciet

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S31 - S34

15. A modified CTAB DNA extraction procedure for plants belonging to the family proteaceae

    • Tina L. Maguire
    • Graham G. Collins
    • Margaret Sedgley

    Commentary Pages: 106 - 109

16. Glutamine synthetase

    • Gloria Coruzzi

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S35 - S35

17. A simple method for isolation of megabase DNA from cotton

    • Xinping Zhao
    • Hong-Bin Zhang
    • Andrew H. Paterson

    Commentary Pages: 110 - 115

18. Plant-wide nomenclature of nuclear genes encoding cytosolic and chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases

    • Rüdiger Cerff
    • Hans J. Bohnert
    • Martin M. Sachs

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S36 - S38

19. A new model for the tertiary structure of 5S ribonucleic acid in plants

    • Miroslawa Z. Barciszewska
    • Volker A. Erdmann
    • Jan Barciszewski

    Review Pages: 116 - 131

20. Nomenclature of genes encoding histones

    • Claude Gigot
    • Steven Spiker

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S39 - S40

21. Extraction of RNA from tissues containing high levels of procyanidins that bind RNA

    • Chang-Sheng Wang
    • Lila O. Vodkin

    Protocols Pages: 132 - 145

22. Lipoxygenases

    • Daisuke Shibata
    • Alan Slusarenko
    • Erin Bell

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S41 - S42

23. Computer image analysis to quantify and analyze stable transformation identified using the histochemical GUS assay

    • Catherine Owens y de Novoa
    • Graeme Coles

    Protocols Pages: 146 - 151

24. Genes of malate and pyruvate metabolism

    • John C. Cushman
    • Christine Gietl
    • Katsura Izui

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S43 - S44

25. Meetings

    Schedule of Events Pages: 152 - 159

26. Genes involved in nitrate assimilation

    • Michel Caboche
    • Wilbur Campbell
    • John Wray

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S45 - S49

27. Fourth International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology

    Meetings Pages: 160 - 182

28. Spotlight on phytochrome nomenclature

    • Peter H. Quail
    • Winslow R. Briggs
    • Garry C. Whitelam

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S50 - S56

29. Genes encoding polygalacturonases

    • Don Grierson
    • Colin Bird
    • Régie Mache

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S57 - S57

30. Genes encoding protease inhibitors

    • J. Xavier-Filho
    • F. A. Paiva Campos

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S58 - S59

31. Genes encoding ribosome-inactivating proteins

    • John Mundy
    • Robert Leah
    • Fiorenzo Stirpe

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S60 - S62

32. RNA polymerase genes

    • Tom Guilfoyle
    • Tim Ulmasov
    • Rob Larkin

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S63 - S66

33. Suggested mnemonics for cloned DNA corresponding to enzymes involved in starch metabolism

    • Brian Smith-White
    • Jack Preiss

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S67 - S71

34. Sucrose synthases

    • L. Curtis Hannah
    • Wolf Frommer
    • William Park

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S72 - S72

35. Genes encoding superoxide dismutases

    • Barbara A. Zilinskas
    • Kozi Asada
    • Kunisuke Tanaka

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S73 - S74

36. Thionins

    • Holger Bohlmann
    • Klaus Apel
    • F. Garcia-Olmedo

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S75 - S75

37. Genes encoding tubulins

    • Don Weeks
    • Carolyn Silflow
    • Don Fosket

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S76 - S76

38. Genes encoding ubiquitin and related proteins

    • Richard Vierstra

    Recommendations of Working Groups Pages: S77 - S78

39. The evolution ofMendel andMnemonic/Numeric

    • EMR

    CPGN Databases Pages: S79 - S80

40. Mnemonic/numeric.1 a database of plant-wide designations

    CPGN Databases Pages: S81 - S88

41. Mendel.1 a database of specific plant genes

    CPGN Databases Pages: S89 - S109