1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

2. Anion channels as central mechanisms for signal transduction in guard cells and putative functions in roots for plant-soil interactions

   • Julian I. Schroeder

   Mini-Review Pages: 353 - 361

3. Molecular cloning of the cDNA encoding a stress-inducible protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) catalytic subunit from French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

   • Alfred Zimmerlin
   • Steve C. Jupe
   • G. Paul Bolwell

   Research Article Pages: 363 - 368

4. Isolation and characterisation of cDNA clones representing the genes encoding the major tuber storage protein (dioscorin) of yam (Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.)

   • R. Steven Conlan
   • Leslie-Ann Griffiths
   • Charles Ainsworth

   Research Article Pages: 369 - 380

5. A novel stress-inducible metallothionein-like gene from rice

   • Hsing-Mei Hsieh
   • Wei-Kuang Liu
   • P. C. Huang

   Research Article Pages: 381 - 389

6. Characterisation of two tomato fruit-expressed cDNAs encoding xyloglucan endo-transglycosylase

   • D. A. Arrowsmith
   • J. de Silva

   Research Article Pages: 391 - 403

7. The nodule-specific VfENOD-GRP3 gene encoding a glycine-rich early nodulin is located on chromosome I of Vicia faba L. and is predominantly expressed in the interzone II-III of root nodules

   • Helge Küster
   • Gerald Schröder
   • Alfred Pühler

   Research Article Pages: 405 - 421

8. High levels of ripening-specific reporter gene expression directed by tomato fruit polygalacturonase gene-flanking regions

   • Fiona J. Nicholass
   • Christopher J.S. Smith
   • Donald Grierson

   Research Article Pages: 423 - 435

9. A transposon-like sequence with short terminal inverted repeats in the nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

   • Anil Day

   Research Article Pages: 437 - 442

10. Characterization of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii gene encoding a protein of the DNA photolyase/blue light photoreceptor family

    • Gary D. Small
    • Byeongyong Min
    • Paul A. Lefebvre

    Research Article Pages: 443 - 454

11. Expression of the rice Osgrp1 promoter-Gus reporter gene is specifically associated with cell elongation/expansion and differentiation

    • Deping Xu
    • Ming Lei
    • Ray Wu

    Research Article Pages: 455 - 471

12. Molecular cloning and characterization of six cDNAs expressed during glucose starvation in excised maize (Zea mays L.) root tips

    • Christian Chevalier
    • Emmanuelle Bourgeois
    • Philippe Raymond

    Research Article Pages: 473 - 485

13. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thioredoxins: structure of the genes coding for the chloroplastic m and cytosolic h isoforms; expression in Escherichia coli of the recombinant proteins, purification and biochemical properties

    • Mariana Stein
    • Jean-Pierre Jacquot
    • Myroslawa Miginiac-Maslow

    Research Article Pages: 487 - 503

14. Ethylene-regulated expression of a carnation cysteine proteinase during flower petal senescence

    • Michelle L. Jones
    • Paul B. Larsen
    • William R. Woodson

    Research Article Pages: 505 - 512

15. cry IA(b) transcript formation in tobacco is inefficient

    • Roel van Aarssen
    • Piet Soetaert
    • Marc Cornelissen

    Research Article Pages: 513 - 524

16. Peculiar properties of the PsaF photosystem I protein from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: presequence independent import of the PsaF protein into both chloroplasts and mitochondria

    • Marie Hugosson
    • Ghasem Nurani
    • Lars-Gunnar Franzén

    Research Article Pages: 525 - 535

17. Dark induction and subcellular localization of the pathogenesis-related PRB-1b protein

    • Guido Sessa
    • Xiao-Qing Yang
    • Robert Fluhr

    Research Article Pages: 537 - 547

18. The Arabidopsis MADS-box gene AGL3 is widely expressed and encodes a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein

    • Hai Huang
    • Matthew Tudor
    • Hong Ma

    Research Article Pages: 549 - 567

19. Extreme heterogeneity of polyadenylation sites in mRNAs encoding chloroplast RNA-binding proteins in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia

    • Ulrich Klahre
    • Maja Hemmings-Mieszczak
    • Witold Filipowicz

    Short Communication Pages: 569 - 574

20. Up-regulation of a cysteine protease accompanies the ethylene-insensitive senescence of daylily (Hemerocallis) flowers

    • Victoriano Valpuesta
    • Nathan E. Lange
    • Michael S. Reid

    Short Communication Pages: 575 - 582

21. The transcripts encoding two oleosin isoforms are both present in the aleurone and in the embryo of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seeds

    • Reidunn B. Aalen

    Short Communication Pages: 583 - 588

22. Identification of a gibberellin-induced gene in deepwater rice using differential display of mRNA

    • Esther van der Knaap
    • Hans Kende

    Short Communication Pages: 589 - 592

23. Sequence announcement

    Announcement Pages: 593 - 593