Contents
Original Papers
Biological activity of soybean trypsin inhibitor and plant lectins against cotton bollworm/legume pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera
Sonali Shukla, Richa Arora, H. C. Sharma. . . . . . . 1 [PDF]
Activation of SIPK in response to UV-C irradiation: utility of a glutathione-S transferase tagged plant MAP kinase by transient expression with agroinfiltration
Takashi Yuasa, Miyuki Sugiki, Yuichiro Watanabe. . . . . . . 7 [PDF]
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the drought and excess light stress-tolerant wild watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
Kinya Akashi, Kaoru Morikawa, Akiho Yokota. . . . . . . 13 [PDF]
Alleviation by calcium of cadmium-induced root growth inhibition in Arabidopsis seedlings
Nobuaki Suzuki. . . . . . . 19 [PDF]
Hyper-assimilation of sulfate and tolerance to sulfide and cadmium in transgenic water spinach expressing an Arabidopsis adenosine phosphosulfate reductase
Nirut Sakulkoo, Ancharida Akaracharanya, Supat Chareonpornwattana, Natchanun Leepipatpiboon, Tatsuo Nakamura, Yube Yamaguchi, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Hiroshi Sano. . . . . . . 27 [PDF]
Brassinolide as a modulator of the activities of cell wall loosening proteins
Yuko Wada, Masayuki Katsumi. . . . . . . 33 [PDF]
Physiological requirements of the nonmevalonate pathway for photo-acclimation in Arabidopsis
Masaya Hojo, Masao Tasaka, Toshiharu Shikanai. . . . . . . 39 [PDF]
High throughput metabolome and proteome analysis of transgenic rice plants (Oryza sativa L.)
Hideyuki Takahashi, Yuji Hotta, Mitsunori Hayashi, Maki Kawai-Yamada, Setsuko Komatsu, Hirofumi Uchimiya. . . . . . . 47 [PDF]
Short Communications
Independent roles of glutathione and O-acetyl-L-serine in regulation of sulfur-responsive gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
Yoshitaka Sogawa, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, Hiroaki Hayashi, Tadakatsu Yoneyama, Toru Fujiwara. . . . . . . 51 [PDF]
Phylogenetic profiling of Arabidopsis genes by monitoring spatial gene expression using cDNA microarrays
Seiyei Yamakawa, Kohei Ando, Kazuya Yoshida, Akiho Yokota, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Takayuki Kohchi. . . . . . . 55 [PDF]
Notes
Multiple shoot formation and plant regeneration of a commercially-useful tropical plant, Buchanania lanzan (Spreng)
Sarika Shende, Mahendra Rai. . . . . . . 59 [PDF]
Effects of ion beam irradiation on the regeneration and morphology of Ficus thunbergii Maxim
Misa Takahashi, Sueli Kohama, Komei Kondo, Makoto Hakata, Yoshihiro Hase, Naoya Shikazono, Atsushi Tanaka, Hiromichi Morikawa . . . . . . . 63 [PDF]
Maize plants mutated in NAD(P)H-dependent HC-toxin reductase gene (Hm1) is vulnerable to H2O2 stress
Mitsunori Hayashi, Hideyuki Takahashi, Maki Kawai-Yamada, Takafumi Tezuka, Hirofumi Uchimiya. . . . . . . 69 [PDF]