1. Notice

   Announcement Pages: i - i

2. Transcription factors in plants: Physiological functions and regulation of expression

   • Shuichi Yanagisawa

   Minireview Pages: 363 - 371

3. Plant water relations and control of cell elongation at low water potentials

   • Hiroshi Nonami

   Minireview Pages: 373 - 382

4. Molecular genetic mapping and plant evolutionary biology

   • Hiroyuki Shibaike

   Minireview Pages: 383 - 388

5. Nuclear recovery from centrifugation-caused elongation: Involvement of the microfilament system in the nuclear plasticity

   • Christian Wunsch
   • Masamitsu Wada

   Original Articles Pages: 389 - 398

6. Detection of intranuclear forces by the use of laser optics during the recovery process of elongated interphase nuclei in centrifuged protenemal cells ofAdiantum capillus-veneris

   • Christian Wunsch
   • Masashi Kurachi
   • Masamitsu Wada

   Original Articles Pages: 399 - 405

7. Activities of auxin polar transport in inflorescence axes of flower mutants ofArabidopsis thaliana: Relevance to flower formation and growth

   • Mariko Oka
   • Junichi Ueda
   • Kiyotaka Okada

   Original Articles Pages: 407 - 410

8. Early salt-stress effects on expression of genes for aquaporin homologues in the halophyte sea aster (Aster tripolium L.)

   • Yuichi Uno
   • Takeshi Urao
   • Kazuo Shinozaki

   Original Articles Pages: 411 - 419

9. Immunocytochemical and chemical analyses of Golgi vesicles isolated from the germinated pollen ofCamellia japonica

   • Yoshikazu Hasegawa
   • Sumio Nakamura
   • Norio Nakamura

   Original Articles Pages: 421 - 429

10. Photoreception inEuglena gracilis: Fluence-rate and time dependence of photoaccumulation and photodispersal

    • Dieter Geiß
    • Horst Senger
    • Paul Galland

    Original Articles Pages: 431 - 440

11. Intrageneric relationships of maple trees based on the chloroplast DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms

    • Mitsuyasu Hasebe
    • Toshio Ando
    • Kunio Iwatsuki

    Original Articles Pages: 441 - 451

12. The promotive effects of a peptidyl plant growth factor, phytosulfokine-α, on the formation of adventitious roots and expression of a gene for a root-specific cystatin in cucumber hypocotyls

    • Seiyei Yamakawa
    • Chiyoko Sakuta
    • Shinobu Satoh

    Original Articles Pages: 453 - 458

13. Ramet production byMallotus japonicus, a common pioneer tree in temperate Japan

    • Masako Mishio
    • Nobumitsu Kawakubo

    Short Communication Pages: 459 - 462

14. The development of spaceflight experiments withArabidopsis as a model system in gravitropism studies

    • W. Jira Katembe
    • Richard E. Edelmann
    • John Z. Kiss

    Technical Note Pages: 463 - 470