Contents
Original Papers
Genomic approaches to the discovery of promoters for sustained expression in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under field conditions: expression analysis in transgenic cotton and Arabidopsis of a Rubisco small subunit promoter identified using EST sequence analysis and cDNA microarrays
B. H. R. Ranamalie Amarasinghe, Emmanuelle Faivre-Nitschke, Yingru Wu, Joshua A. Udall, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Greg Constable, Danny J. Llewellyn. . . . . . . 437 [PDF]
Analysis of chromatin condensation states by DNase I sensitivity assay at 500-base resolution in Arabidopsis
Yuichi Kodama, Shingo Nagaya, Nozomu Sakurai, Daisuke Shibata, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Ko Kato. . . . . . . 451 [PDF]
A high-throughput evaluation system for Arabidopsis mutants for defense signaling
Premkumar Albert, Ayako Miya, Kazuyuki Hiratsuka, Naoto Kawakami, Naoto Shibuya. . . . . . . 459 [PDF]
Tobacco RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED protein is phosphorylated by different types of cyclindependent kinases during the cell cycle
Kazue Kawamura, Ko Kato, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Masami Sekine. . . . . . . 467 [PDF]
Isolation and proteomic analysis of rice Golgi membranes: cis-Golgi membranes labeled with GFPSYP31
Tsuyoshi Asakura, Shota Hirose, Hiroki Katamine, Aya Kitajima, Hidetaka Hori, Masa H. Sato, Masayuki Fujiwara, Ko Shimamoto, Toshiaki Mitsui. . . . . . . 475 [PDF]
Short Communications
Searching for genetic factors involved in hybrid lethality in Nicotiana ; Possible use of a cultured cell line of a hybrid
Masanobu Mino, Mami Kubota, Yuki Yamaguchi, Tetsu Kawamori, Kenji Sato, Yuko Misaka, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Masayoshi Inoue. . . . . . . 487 [PDF]
Notes
Development Note
Two distinct phases of glandular trichome development in hop (Humulus lupulus L.)
Ryuji Sugiyama, Haruka Oda, Fumiya Kurosaki. . . . . . . 493 [PDF]
Gene Note
Vascular cell expression patterns of Arabidopsis bZIP group I genes
Hyunjin Pyo, Taku Demura, Hiroo Fukuda. . . . . . . 497 [PDF]
Comparative analysis of expression profiles of counterpart gene sets between Brassica rapa and Arabidopsis thaliana during fungal pathogen Colletotrichum higginsianum infection
Mari Narusaka, Hiroshi Abe, Masatomo Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Kubo, Yoshihiro Narusaka. . . . . . . 503 [PDF]
Isolation and characterization of a cDNA encoding polyketide reductase in Lotus japonicus
Norimoto Shimada, Takashi Nakatsuka, Masahiro Nishihara, Saburo Yamamura, Shin-ichi Ayabe, Toshio Aoki. . . . . . . 509 [PDF]
Nuclear localization of sweet cherry DREB1/CBF ortholog (CIG) and low temperature-inducible activity of CIG promoter
Hiroyasu Kitashiba, Yusuke Ban, Chikako Honda, Takaya Moriguchi. . . . . . . 515 [PDF]
Genome Note
Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis to distinguish Brugmansia suaveolens, B. candida and B. versicolor
Asep Gana Suganda, Sukrasno, Yasutaka Nishiyama, Takashi Yamakawa, Nobuo Sugiyama. . . . . . . 519 [PDF]
Tissue Culture Notes
Studies on callus induction, plant regeneration and transformation of Javanica rice cultivars
Diah Rachmawati, Hiroyuki Anzai. . . . . . . 521 [PDF]
Efficient plant regeneration from protoplasts of eggplant rootstock cultivar and its wild relatives
Yuzuri Iwamoto, Hiroshi Ezura. . . . . . . 525 [PDF]
Transgenic Notes
Identification of hemizygous and homozygous transgenic rice plants in T1 generation by DNA blot analysis
Ganapathi Sridevi, Chidambaram Parameswari, Paramasivam Rajamuni, Karuppannan Veluthambi. . . . . . . 531 [PDF]
The tobacco CHN50 matrix attachment region enhances transformation frequency
Kikuko Shirai, Yuji Fukuda. . . . . . . 535 [PDF]
Report
Biosafety system frameworks for living modified organisms in Japan and Taiwan
Chia-Hsin Chen, Yoshiko Sassa, Eiko Suda, Kazuo N. Watanabe. . . . . . . 539 [PDF]