December 2015, Volume 20, Number 12, pp.

781–858

Spotlights Editor
781 LONELY-GUY Knocks Every Door: Muhammad Naseem, Susanne C. Brink
Crosskingdom Microbial Pathogenesis Edita Sarukhanyan, Executive Editor, General Biology
Geoffrey North
and Thomas Dandekar
Journal Manager
783 Plant Life without Ethylene Laurentius A.C.J. Voesenek, Jan Kastelein
Ronald Pierik, Journal Administrators
and Rashmi Sasidharan Ria Otten
Patrick Scheffmann
Opinions Advisory Editorial Board
787 The Maize Leaf: Another Perspective Viktoriya Avramova, J.F. Allen, London, UK
on Growth Regulation Katrien Sprangers, E. Blumwald, Davis, USA
J.J. Casal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
and Gerrit T.S. Beemster
J. Dangl, Chapel Hill, USA
798 Did Convergent Protein Evolution Florian Rümpler, C. Dean, Norwich, UK
R.A. Dixon, Ardmore, USA
Enable Phytoplasmas to Generate Lydia Gramzow, Günter Theißen,
A.R. Fernie, Potsdam-Golm,
‘Zombie Plants’? and Rainer Melzer Germany
W. Gruissem, Zurich, Switzerland
807 Revisiting the Non-Animal Peroxidase Fernanda Lazzarotto, M. Heil, Irapuato, Mexico
Superfamily Andreia Carina Turchetto-Zolet, D. Inzé, Ghent, Belgium
and Márcia Margis-Pinheiro M. Koornneef, Wageningen,
The Netherlands
814 Paralogue Interference Affects the Elisabeth Kaltenegger A. Larkum, Sydney, Australia
Dynamics after Gene Duplication and Dietrich Ober O. Leyser, Cambridge, UK
C. Martin, Norwich, UK
S. McCormick, Albany, USA
Reviews
S. Merchant, Los Angeles, USA
822 Dynamic Quantitative Trait Locus Zitong Li and Mikko J. Sillanpää R. Mittler, Reno, USA
Analysis of Plant Phenomic Data R. Mosher, Tuscon, USA
J. Parker, Cologne, Germany
834 Super-resolution Microscopy in Plant George Komis, M. Purugganan, New York, USA
Cell Imaging Olga Šamajová, Miroslav Ovečka, E. Richards, Ithaca, USA
and Jozef Šamaj J. Sheen, Boston, USA
K. Shinozaki, Tsukuba, Japan
844 Source–Sink Communication: Su-May Yu, Shuen-Fang Lo, S. Smeekens, Utrecht,
Regulated by Hormone, Nutrient, and Tuan-Hua David Ho The Netherlands
V. Sundaresan, Davis, USA
and Stress Cross-Signaling Y. Zhu, Beijing, China

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analyses. On pages 787–797 Gerrit T.S. Beemster and colleagues highlight exciting
new possibilities to advance mechanistic understanding of plant growth regulation
by using the maize leaf as a complimentary system to the Arabidopsis root tip.
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