1. Sequence variation, differential expression and chromosomal location of rice chitinase genes

   • Yoko Nishizawa
   • Naoki Kishimoto
   • Tadaaki Hibi

   Original Articles Pages: 1 - 10

2. Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for resistance to Gibberella zeae infection in maize

   • M. Enrico Pè
   • Luca Gianfranceschi
   • Giorgio Binelli

   Original Articles Pages: 11 - 16

3. Identification and characterization of stylar glycoproteins associated with self-incompatibility genes of Japanese pear, Pyrus serotina Rehd

   • Hidenori Sassa
   • Hisashi Hirano
   • Hiroshi Ikehashi

   Original Articles Pages: 17 - 25

4. Expression of a Drosophila melanogaster amber suppressor tRNA^Ser in Caenorhabditis elegans

   • David B. Pilgrim
   • John B. Bell

   Original Articles Pages: 26 - 32

5. Cloning and characterization of the scrA gene encoding the sucrose-specific Enzyme II of the phosphotransferase system from Staphylococcus xylosus

   • Elke Wagner
   • Friedrich Götz
   • Reinhold Brückner

   Original Articles Pages: 33 - 41

6. The vestigial locus of Drosophila melanogaster is involved in resistance to inhibitors of dTMP synthesis

   • J. Silber
   • A. Le Menn
   • S. Paumard

   Original Articles Pages: 42 - 48

7. Kanamycin resistance as a selectable marker for plastid transformation in tobacco

   • Helaine Carrer
   • Tish Noel Hockenberry
   • Pal Maliga

   Original Articles Pages: 49 - 56

8. Enhanced detection of polymorphic DNA by multiple arbitrary amplicon profiling of endonuclease-digested DNA: identification of markers tightly linked to the supernodulation locus in soybean

   • Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
   • Brant J. Bassam
   • Peter M. Gresshoff

   Original Articles Pages: 57 - 64

9. Nopaline causes a conformational change in the NocR regulatory protein-nocR promoter complex of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid pTiT37

   • Ferenc Marines
   • Derek W. R. White

   Original Articles Pages: 65 - 72

10. Transient and stable gene expression in the fungal maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus after transformation with the β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene

    • Enrico Mönke
    • Wilhelm Schäfer

    Original Articles Pages: 73 - 80

11. Genetic analysis of yeast strains lacking negative feedback control: a one-step method for positive selection and cloning of carbamoylphosphate synthetase-aspartate transcarbamoylase mutants unable to respond to UTP

    • Laurence Jaquet
    • Marc Lollier
    • Serge Potier

    Original Articles Pages: 81 - 88

12. Oligomerization of Escherichia coli haemolysin (HlyA) is involved in pore formation

    • Albrecht Ludwig
    • Roland Benz
    • Werner Goebel

    Original Articles Pages: 89 - 96

13. Replication of the promiscuous plasmid pLSI: a region encompassing the minus origin of replication is associated with stable plasmid inheritance

    • Gloria del Solar
    • Gabriela Kramer
    • Manuel Espinosa

    Original Articles Pages: 97 - 105

14. The membrane topology of the Rhizobium meliloti C₄-dicarboxylate permease (DctA) as derived from protein fusions with Escherichia coli K12 alkaline phosphatase (PhoA) and β-galactosidase (LacZ)

    • Doris Jording
    • Alfred Pühler

    Original Articles Pages: 106 - 114

15. Maternal inheritance of P cytotype in Drosophila melanogaster: a “pre-P cytotype” is strictly extra-chromosomally transmitted

    • Stéphane Ronsseray
    • Bruno Lemaitre
    • Dario Coen

    Original Articles Pages: 115 - 123

16. Molecular analysis of allelic polymorphism at the AAT2 locus of alfalfa

    • Robert G. Gregerson
    • Mary Petrowski
    • Carroll P. Vance

    Original Articles Pages: 124 - 128

17. Genetic organization of the streptokinase region of the Streptococcus equisimilis H46A chromosome

    • Undine Mechold
    • Kerstin Steiner
    • Horst Malke

    Original Articles Pages: 129 - 140

18. Differential expression of the partially duplicated chloroplast S10 ribosomal protein operon

    • John C. Tonkyn
    • Wilhelm Gruissem

    Original Articles Pages: 141 - 152

19. Functional cis-element sequence requirements for suppression of gene expression by the TNPA protein of the Zea mays transposon En/Spm

    • Sarah R. Grant
    • Sabine Hardenack
    • Heinz Saedler

    Original Articles Pages: 153 - 160

20. Antiparallel expression of the sense and antisense transcripts of maize α-tubulin genes

    • Silvana Dolfini
    • Gabriella Consonni
    • Chiara Tonelli

    Original Articles Pages: 161 - 169

21. Cloning sequencing and expression of the gene for cytochrome P450meg, the steroid-15β-monooxygenase from Bacillus megaterium ATCC 13368

    • Reimund Rauschenbach
    • Marina Isernhagen
    • Gerhard Siewert

    Original Articles Pages: 170 - 176

22. Activity of the yeast MAP kinase homologue Slt2 is critically required for cell integrity at 37° C

    • Humberto Martin
    • Javier Arroyo
    • César Nombela

    Original Articles Pages: 177 - 184

23. Characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus chromosomal gene pcrA, identified by mutations affecting plasmid pT181 replication

    • Serban Iordanescu

    Original Articles Pages: 185 - 192

24. Nucleotide sequence analysis of five putative Streptomyces griseus genes, one of which complements an early function in daunorubicin biosynthesis that is linked to a putative gene cluster involved in TDP-daunosamine formation

    • Hans Krügel
    • Gisbert Schumann
    • Gisela Fiedler

    Original Articles Pages: 193 - 202

25. Functional expression of the tellurite resistance determinant from the IncHI-2 plasmid pMER610

    • S. M. Hill
    • M. G. Jobling
    • D. A. Ritchie

    Original Articles Pages: 203 - 212

26. Transcription of the yeast mitochondrial genome requires cyclic AMP

    • Catherine M. McEntee
    • Robin Cantwell
    • Alan P. Hudson

    Original Articles Pages: 213 - 224

27. Abundance, polymorphism and genetic mapping of microsatellites in rice

    • Kun-Sheng Wu
    • Steven D. Tanksley

    Original Articles Pages: 225 - 235

28. pMH2, a small plasmid bearing the nif gene cluster of Enterobacter agglomerans 333 as an excisable cassette

    • Frank Stumpf
    • Lidija Halda
    • Walter Klingmüller

    Short Communication Pages: 236 - 240