1. ISPMB news New president-elect and ISPMB elections

   Cis and Trans Pages: 2 - 3

2. The Congress clock is ticking!

   Cis and Trans Pages: 4 - 4

3. Appointments and awards

   Announcement Pages: 5 - 5

4. OrganelleIntel

   Announcement Pages: 5 - 5

5. Arabidupdate

   Announcement Pages: 6 - 7

6. Modification of a CTAB DNA extraction protocol for plants containing high polysaccharide and polyphenol components

   • Sue Porebski
   • L. Grant Bailey
   • Bernard R. Baum

   Commentary Pages: 8 - 15

7. Rapid and efficientAgrobacterium-mediated transformation in rice

   • Seiichi Toki

   Genetic Resources Pages: 16 - 21

8. Detection of transcripts via fluorescencein-situ hybridization and confocal microscopy in whole mounts of roots ofArabidopsis thaliana

   • Serge Bauwens
   • Els Verhoeyen
   • Gilbert Engler

   Protocol Pages: 22 - 37

9. Screening of transgenic plants by multiplex PCR

   • Marie Mannerlöf
   • Paul Tenning

   Protocol Pages: 38 - 45

10. Identification of plant mitochondrial proteins: A procedure linking two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to protein sequencing from PVDF membranes using a FastBlot cycle

    • Bryan Dunbar
    • Thomas E. Elthon
    • S. Brian Wilson

    Protocols Pages: 46 - 61

11. A slot-blot hybridisation method for screening somatic hybrids

    • D. Matthews
    • K. Harding
    • S. Millam

    Protocols Pages: 62 - 70

12. Production of polyclonal antibodies against a wheat thioredoxinh by genetic immunization

    • Bruno Robert
    • Valérie Lullien-Pellerin
    • Marie-Françoise Gautier

    Protocols Pages: 71 - 77

13. Plant & Animal Genome V

    • EMR

    Report of Meeting Pages: 78 - 80

14. A table of some cloned plant genes involved in isoprenoid biosynthesis

    • Pablo A. Scolnik
    • Glenn E. Bartley

    Erratum Pages: 80 - 80

15. Kenneth Vivian Thimann 1904–1997

    • CAP

    Obituary Pages: 81 - 81

16. Meetings

    Schedule of Events Pages: 82 - 86

17. Courses and workshops

    Schedule of Events Pages: 86 - 86