Genetic engineering : principles and methods. Vol. 27

IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF MICRORNAS ....................................1 Sveta Bagga and Amy E. Pasquinelli DORMANCY AND THE CELL CYCLE ............................................................21 Michael A. Campbell THE OPT FAMILY FUNCTIONS IN LONG-DISTANCE PEPTIDE AND METAL TRANSPORT IN PLANTS ........................................35 Mark Lubkowitz PHOSPHOLIPID-DERIVED SIGNALING IN PLANT RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE AND WATER STRESSES ..........................57 Xuemin Wang ANIONIC NUTRIENT TRANSPORT IN PLANTS: THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF THE SULFATE TRANSPORTER GENE FAMILY........................................................................67 Hideki Takahashi, Naoko Yoshimoto, and Kazuki Saito PURIFICATION OF PROTEIN COMPLEXES BY IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY: APPLICATION TO TRANSCRIPTION MACHINERY ....................................81 Nancy E. Thompson, Debra Bridges Jensen, Jennifer A. Lamberski, and Richard R. Burgess BIOGENESIS OF IRON-SULFUR CLUSTER PROTEINS IN PLASTIDS ..................................................................................101 Marinus Pilon, Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Douglas Van Hoewyk, Hong Ye, and Elizabeth A. H. Pilon-Smits IRON TRANSPORT AND METABOLISM IN PLANTS ................................119 Loubna Kerkeb and Erin L. Connolly SALT STRESS SIGNALING AND MECHANISMS OF PLANT SALT TOLERANCE ......................................................................141 Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Jianhua Zhu, and Jian-Kang Zhu xxi STRATEGIES FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENE CLONING AND EXPRESSION............................................................................................179 L. J. Dieckman, W. C. Hanly, and F. R. Collart MOLECULAR ROLES OF CHAPERONES IN ASSISTED FOLDING AND ASSEMBLY OF PROTEINS ..............................191 Mark T. Fisher ENGINEERING PLANTS FOR INCREASED NUTRITION AND ANTIOXIDANT CONTENT THROUGH THE MANIPULATION OF THE VITAMIN E PATHWAY..............................231 David K. Shintani INDEX ................................................................................................................243