1. Genome sequencing and functional genomics approaches in tomato

   • Daisuke Shibata

   REVIEW Pages: 1 - 7

2. Catalog of Micro-Tom tomato responses to common fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens

   • Hideki Takahashi
   • Ayano Shimizu
   • Yuichiro Watanabe

   HOST RESPONSES Pages: 8 - 22

3. Moss-Erwinia pathosystem reveals possible similarities in pathogenesis and pathogen defense in vascular and nonvascular plants

   • Robert A. Andersson
   • Motomu Akita
   • Jari P.T. Valkonen

   FUNGAL DISEASES Short communication Pages: 23 - 28

4. Sexual mating preferences in vitro and in planta among Japanese isolates of Phytophthora infestans

   • Kiyotaka Gotoh
   • Seishi Akino
   • Shigeo Naito

   FUNGAL DISEASES Short communication Pages: 29 - 32

5. Nitric oxide-overproducing transformants of Pseudomonas fluorescens with enhanced biocontrol of tomato bacterial wilt

   • Yanqing Wang
   • Qian Yang
   • Shigeyuki Mayama

   BACTERIAL AND PHYTOPLASMA DISEASES Pages: 33 - 38

6. Phylogenetic relationships of Ralstonia solanacearum species complex strains from Asia and other continents based on 16S rDNA, endoglucanase, and hrpB gene sequences

   • Joselito E. Villa
   • Kenichi Tsuchiya
   • Mitsuro Hyakumachi

   BACTERIAL AND PHYTOPLASMA DISEASES Pages: 39 - 46

7. Virulence, resistance to magainin II, and expression of pectate lyase are controlled by the PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulatory system responding to pH and magnesium in Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937

   • Md. Manjurul Haque
   • Shinji Tsuyumu

   BACTERIAL AND PHYTOPLASMA DISEASES Pages: 47 - 53

8. Multiplex PCR for the identification of Agrobacterium biovar 3 strains

   • Akira Kawaguchi
   • Hiroyuki Sawada
   • Hideo Nasu

   BACTERIAL AND PHYTOPLASMA DISEASES Short communication Pages: 54 - 59

9. Discrimination between tobamoviruses and their pathotypes for L-gene-mediated resistance in green pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

   • Shigeharu Takeuchi
   • Hiroyuki Hamada
   • Tetsuro Okuno

   VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES Pages: 60 - 67

10. Characterization and genetic status of Banana bunchy top virus isolated from Okinawa, Japan

    • Noriko Furuya
    • Shinji Kawano
    • Keiko T. Natsuaki

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES Pages: 68 - 73

11. Characterization of Tomato bushy stunt virus newly isolated from nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum) in Japan

    • Takehiro Ohki
    • Seiji Uematsu
    • Ichiro Fujisawa

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES Pages: 74 - 79

12. Biological characteristics and nucleotide sequences of three Korean isolates of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus

    • Sang-Wook Kwon
    • Mi-Soon Kim
    • Kook-Hyung Kim

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES Short communication Pages: 80 - 85

13. Use of crude sap for one-step RT-PCR-based assays of Bean yellow mosaic virus and the utility of this protocol for various plant–virus combinations

    • Hiroyuki Uga

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES Short communication Pages: 86 - 89

14. Timing and extent of hypersensitive response are critical to restrict local and systemic spread of Pepper mild mottle virus in pepper containing the L ³ gene

    • Hiroyuki Hamada
    • Shigeharu Takeuchi
    • Tetsuro Okuno

    VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES Short communication Pages: 90 - 94

15. Botrytis blight of Taiwanese toad lily caused by Botrytis elliptica (Berkeley) Cooke

    • Toshiko Furukawa
    • Kinji Ushiyama
    • Kunihei Kishi

    DISEASE NOTE Pages: 95 - 97

16. Erratum to: Invasion and colonization of mature apple fruit by Erwinia amylovora tagged with bioluminescence genes

    • Koji Azegami
    • Takanori Tsukamoto
    • Masao Goto

    Erratum 18 February 2005 Pages: 98 - 98