1. Editorial

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 89

2. Use of molecular beacon for the detection of fertile male plants in batches of sterile male rapeseed

   • Sandra Rousseau
   • Dominique Brunel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 96

3. Variation of DNA fingerprints among accessions within maize inbred lines and implications for identification of essentially derived varieties: II. Genetic and technical sources of variation in AFLP data and comparison with SSR data

   • Martin Heckenberger
   • Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort
   • Martin Bohn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 106

4. Sequence variation in two lignin biosynthesis genes, cinnamoyl CoA reductase (CCR) and cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (CAD2)

   • Fiona S. Poke
   • René E. Vaillancourt
   • James B. Reid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 118

5. The Populus PTD promoter imparts floral-predominant expression and enables high levels of floral-organ ablation in Populus, Nicotiana and Arabidopsis

   • Jeffrey S. Skinner
   • Richard Meilan
   • Steven H. Strauss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 132

6. Genetic basis of ovicidal response to whitebacked planthopper (Sogatella furcifera Horváth) in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

   • Masanori Yamasaki
   • Atsushi Yoshimura
   • Hideshi Yasui

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 143

7. A multi-generation analysis of the stability of transgenic virus resistance in doubled-haploid tobacco lines

   • Yan Sheng Liu
   • Jennifer S. Levin
   • Arthur K. Weissinger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 156

8. Down regulation of Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase, a lignification enzyme, in Eucalyptus camaldulensis

   • Luisa Valério
   • Dawn Carter
   • Chantal Teulières

   OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 167

9. Molecular mapping of a new gene Rrs4 _{CI 11549} for resistance to barley scald (Rhynchosporium secalis)

   • Vishwanath Patil
   • Åsmund Bjørnstad
   • James Mackey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 183