1. ISPMB News: From the board of directors

   Cis and Trans Pages: 298 - 301

2. Appointments and awards

   Announcement Pages: 301 - 301

3. New arabidopsis electronic newsletter

   • Mary Anderson

   BriefCommunication Pages: 302 - 303

4. Construction of a genomic library using high-molecular-weight DNA prepared from peach leaves

   • Kyu H. Chung
   • Schuyler S. Korban
   • Dennis E. Buetow

   Commentary Pages: 304 - 309

5. RNA isolation from recalcitrant plant tissue

   • David J. Schultz
   • Richard Craig
   • June I. Medford

   Commentary Pages: 310 - 316

6. The world-wide web and plant molecular biology

   • Bradley K. Sherman

   Genetic and Other Resources Pages: 317 - 320

7. Hybridizationin situ of whole-mount messenger RNA in plants

   • Janice de Almeida Engler
   • Marc Van Montagu
   • Gilbert Engler

   Protocols Pages: 321 - 331

8. Quick and efficient measurement of transient GUS expression using image analysis

   • William F. Anderson
   • Lane Arthur
   • Peggy Ozias-Akins

   Protocol Pages: 332 - 340

9. Simultaneous PCR amplification of two barley 5S rDNA sequence types in the same PCR reaction

   • Bernard R. Baum
   • Douglas A. Johnson

   Protocol Pages: 341 - 346

10. Plant expression cassettes for enhanced translational efficiency

    • M. J. Dowson Day
    • J. L. Ashurst
    • R. A. Dixon

    Protocol Pages: 347 - 357

11. A nonradioactive method for isolating complementary DNAs endocing calmodulin-binding proteins

    • Anthony P. Fordham-Skelton
    • F. Safadi
    • A. S. N. Reddy

    Protocol Pages: 358 - 366

12. Meetings

    Schedule of Events Pages: 367 - 372

13. Courses and workshops

    Schedule of Events Pages: 373 - 373