1. Editorial

   Pages: 241 - 241

2. Pollen tube guidance – the long and winding road

   • Rui Malhó

   COMMENTARY Pages: 242 - 244

3. Localization of an SLG protein expressed under the regulation of a tapetum-specific promoter in anthers of transgenic Brassica napus

   • Y. Sasaki
   • Megumi Iwano
   • K. Toriyama

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 245 - 250

4. A novel thaumatin-like protein gene of tobacco is specifically expressed in the transmitting tissue of stigma and style

   • Tsutomu Kuboyama

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 251 - 256

5. Actin coronas in normal and indeterminate gametophyte1 embryo sacs of maize

   • Bing-Quan Huang
   • W. F. Sheridan

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 257 - 264

6. Variation in sporophytic and gametophytic vigor in wild and cultivated varieties of Cucurbita pepo and their F1 and F2 generations

   • M. H. Jóhannsson
   • A. G. Stephenson

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 265 - 271

7. Chromosome elimination in Paspalum subciliatum (Notata group)

   • Eleniza de Victor Adamowski
   • M. S. Pagliarini
   • Luiz Alberto Rocha Batista

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 272 - 276

8. Identification of pollination-induced genes from the ovary of apple (Malus domestica)

   • Y.-H. Dong
   • Anders Kvarnheden
   • R. C. Gardner

   Pages: 277 - 283

9. Ultrastructural and molecular study of plastid inheritance in Abies alba and some Abies hybrids

   • J. Salaj
   • Alena Kosová
   • Björn Walles

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 284 - 291

10. High sequence similarity between SLG and the receptor domain of SRK is not necessarily involved in higher dominance relationships in stigma in self-incompatible Brassica rapa L.

    • K. Hatakeyama
    • Takeshi Takasaki
    • Kokichi Hinata

    SEQUENCE UPDATE Pages: 292 - 294

11. Sequence comparison of four SLR1 alleles in Brassica campestris (syn. B. rapa)

    • Motoko Watanabe
    • Masao Watanabe
    • Kokichi Hinata

    SEQUENCE UPDATE Pages: 295 - 296