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    Plant Biotechnology Journal: Volume 10, Issue 5

    501-620
    June 2012
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Review articles

An intellectual property sharing initiative in agricultural biotechnology: development of broadly accessible technologies for plant transformation

Cecilia L. Chi-Ham,  Sara Boettiger,  Rosa Figueroa-Balderas,  Sara Bird,  Josef N. Geoola,  Pablo Zamora,  Monica Alandete-Saez,  Alan B. Bennett, 
  • Pages: 501-510
  • First Published: 06 January 2012

Field trials and tribulations—making sense of the regulations for experimental field trials of transgenic crops in Europe

Sonia Gómez-Galera,  Richard M. Twyman,  Penelope A.C. Sparrow,  Bart Van Droogenbroeck,  René Custers,  Teresa Capell,  Paul Christou, 
  • Pages: 511-523
  • First Published: 30 January 2012

Research articles

Rolling-leaf14 is a 2OG-Fe (II) oxygenase family protein that modulates rice leaf rolling by affecting secondary cell wall formation in leaves

Likui Fang,  Fangming Zhao,  Yunfei Cong,  Xianchun Sang,  Qing Du,  Dezhong Wang,  Yunfeng Li,  Yinghua Ling,  Zhenglin Yang,  Guanghua He, 
  • Pages: 524-532
  • First Published: 14 February 2012

Modulation of kernel storage proteins in grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

Tejinder Kumar,  Ismail Dweikat,  Shirley Sato,  Zhengxiang Ge,  Natalya Nersesian,  Han Chen,  Tom Elthon,  Scott Bean,  Brian P. Ioerger,  Mike Tilley,  Tom Clemente, 
  • Pages: 533-544
  • First Published: 21 February 2012

Engineering starch accumulation by manipulation of phosphate metabolism of starch

Sean E. Weise,  Kimberly Aung,  Zach J. Jarou,  Payam Mehrshahi,  Ziru Li,  Anna C. Hardy,  David J. Carr,  Thomas D. Sharkey, 
  • Pages: 545-554
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

In-depth molecular and phenotypic characterization in a rice insertion line library facilitates gene identification through reverse and forward genetics approaches

Mathias Lorieux,  Mélisande Blein,  Jaime Lozano,  Mathieu Bouniol,  Gaétan Droc,  Anne Diévart,  Christophe Périn,  Delphine Mieulet,  Nadège Lanau,  Martine Bès,  Claire Rouvière,  Céline Gay,  Pietro Piffanelli,  Pierre Larmande,  Corinne Michel,  Isabelle Barnola,  Corinne Biderre-Petit,  Christophe Sallaud,  Pascual Perez,  Fabienne Bourgis,  Alain Ghesquière,  Pascal Gantet,  Joe Tohme,  Jean Benoit Morel,  Emmanuel Guiderdoni, 
  • Pages: 555-568
  • First Published: 28 February 2012

Enhanced polyhydroxybutyrate production in transgenic sugarcane

Lars A. Petrasovits,  Lihan Zhao,  Richard B. McQualter,  Kristi D. Snell,  Maria N. Somleva,  Nii A. Patterson,  Lars K. Nielsen,  Stevens M. Brumbley, 
  • Pages: 569-578
  • First Published: 28 February 2012

Overexpression of Arabidopsis and Rice stress genes’ inducible transcription factor confers drought and salinity tolerance to rice

Karabi Datta,  Niranjan Baisakh,  Moumita Ganguly,  Sellapan Krishnan,  Kazuko Yamaguchi Shinozaki,  Swapan K. Datta, 
  • Pages: 579-586
  • First Published: 02 March 2012

Tissue-type-specific transcriptome analysis identifies developing xylem-specific promoters in poplar

Jae-Heung Ko,  Hyun-Tae Kim,  Ildoo Hwang,  Kyung-Hwan Han, 
  • Pages: 587-596
  • First Published: 07 March 2012

Transformation of Mexican lime with an intron-hairpin construct expressing untranslatable versions of the genes coding for the three silencing suppressors of Citrus tristeza virus confers complete resistance to the virus

Nuria Soler,  Montserrat Plomer,  Carmen Fagoaga,  Pedro Moreno,  Luis Navarro,  Ricardo Flores,  Leandro Peña, 
  • Pages: 597-608
  • First Published: 08 March 2012

Biosynthesis and incorporation of side-chain-truncated lignin monomers to reduce lignin polymerization and enhance saccharification

Aymerick Eudes,  Anthe George,  Purba Mukerjee,  Jin S. Kim,  Brigitte Pollet,  Peter I. Benke,  Fan Yang,  Prajakta Mitra,  Lan Sun,  Özgül P. Çetinkol,  Salem Chabout,  Grégory Mouille,  Ludivine Soubigou-Taconnat,  Sandrine Balzergue,  Seema Singh,  Bradley M. Holmes,  Aindrila Mukhopadhyay,  Jay D. Keasling,  Blake A. Simmons,  Catherine Lapierre,  John Ralph,  Dominique Loqué, 
  • Pages: 609-620
  • First Published: 28 March 2012