Contents
Review
Plant Transposable Elements and Functional Genomics
C. Santhosh KUMAR and Kottaram K. NARAYANAN･･････159 [PDF]
Molecular Characterization of Metallothionein Genes in Plants
Li-Hua YU , Jm Yuan LIU, Masaaki UMEDA, Hirofumi UCHIMIYA. . . . . . . 167 [PDF]
Molecular Mechanisms of Herbicide Resistance with Special Eluphasis on Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases
Hideo OHKAWA, Hiromasa IMAISHI, Noriaki SHIOTA, Takashi YAMADA Hideyuki INUI and Yasunobu OHKAwA. . . . . . . 173 [PDF]
Original Paper
Fertile Transgenic Asparagus Plants Produced by Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation
Hiroaki KISAKA and Toshiaki KAMEYA. . . . . . . 177 [PDF]
Control of Growth and Development of Protocorm like Body Derived from Callus by Carbon Sources in Phalaenopsis
M. Obaidul ISLAM, Syoichi ICHIHASHI and Shuichiro MATSUI. . . . . . . 183 [PDF]
Transformation of Chilli Pepper (Capsicum frutescens) With a Phenylalanine Amnlonia-Lyase Gene
Takashi YAMAKAWA, Susumu SEKIGUCHI, Tohru KODAMA, Steven M. SMITH, and Michael M. YEOMAN. . . . . . . 189 [PDF]
Expression and Function of a Hybrid Bt Toxin Gene in Transgenic Rice Conferring Resistance to Insect Pest
Jumin TU, Karabi DATTA, Mohammad Firoz ALAM, Yunlu FAN, Gurdev Singh KHUSH, and Swapan Kumar DATTA. . . . . . . 195 [PDF]
Molecular Cloning of a Novel Glutelin cDNA from Rice Seeds
Norihiro MITSUKAWA, Hirofumi HAYASHI, Kayo YAMAMOTO, Kunitomo KIDZU, Ryoichi KONISHI, Takehiro MASUMURA and Kunisuke TANAKA. . . . . . . 205 [PDF]
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Molecular Characterization of the Gene for Dihydroflavonol 4-Reductase of Japonica Rice Varieties
Kiyoshi NAKAI, Yoshishige INAGAKI, Hisanori NAGATA, Chikara MIYKZAKI and Shigeru IIDA. . . . . . . 211 [PDF]
Short Communication
Effects of Several Antibiotics and Bialaphos on the Growth and Organ Formation of Lilium formosanum Calli and Transient Expression of the gusA Gene after Co-cultivation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Sakae SUZUKI, Yoshiji NIIMI, Toshiaki SAKAKIBARA, Keizo HOSOKAWA, Saburo YAMAMURA and Masaru NAKANO. . . . . . . 213 [PDF]
A NeW Vector Set for GAL4-Depelldent Transactlvatlon Assay in Plants
Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto and Xing-Wang Deng. . . . . . . 217 [PDF]
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A Ti-plasmid-convertible lambda Phage Vector System Harboring the Hygromycin B Phosphotransferase Gene
Takuichi FUSE, Hiroaki KODAMA, Nobuaki HAYASHIDA, Kazuo SHINOZAKI and Koh IBA. . . . . . . 227 [PDF]
Effects of Osmoticum and Organic Acids in Media on Protoplast Division in Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)
Takako GOTO, Masanori MIYAZAKI and Masakazu OKU. . . . . . . 231 [PDF]
Photosynthetic Carbon Assimilation of Transgenic Tobacco Plant Expressing Cytoplasmic Carbonic Anhydrase cDNA from Mouse
Kenji JINUSHI, Keiichiro OKABE and Ryuichi ISHII. . . . . . . 235 [PDF]
Effects of B Vitamins and Benzylaminopurine on Adventitious Shoot Formation from Hypocotyl Segments of Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus L.)
Kazuhiko SHIMASAKI and Yasufumi FUKUMOTO. . . . . . . 239 [PDF]
Detection of Glycoproteins in Carrot Somatic Embryos Induced by 2,4-D or Stress Treatment.
Kazuo SASAKI, Yoshiharu IIDA, Katsumi HIGASHI, Michiko DAITA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI Hiroshi HARADA and Hiroshi KAMADA. . . . . . . 241 [PDF]
Efficient DNA Minipreparation by Modified Benzyl Chloride Method frorn Hairy Roots of Ajuga reptans to Detect rolB Gene from Ri Plasmid
Nobuaki WATANABE, Nobukazu TANAKA and Ichiro YAMASHITA. . . . . . . 245 [PDF]
[PIant Bio techniques Series (8) ]
AFLP (Amplified Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) -Based mRNA Fingerprinting
Yoshiki HABU and Shigeru IIDA. . . . . . . 249 [PDF]
[PIant Bio techniques Series (9) ]
Systematic Screening of Mutants of Rice by SequenCing Retrotransposon-Insertion Sites