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    Planta

An International Journal of Plant Biology
Editors-in-Chief: A. Melis; D. Bartels
ISSN: 0032-0935 (print version)
ISSN: 1432-2048 (electronic version)
Journal no. 425
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Professor Dorothea Bartels
Institut für Molekulare Physiologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IMBIO)
Universität Bonn
D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Fax: +49-228-731697
e-mail: planta@uni-bonn.de


	
Professor Anastasios Melis
Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California
111 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, Calif., USA
Tel.: +1-510-642-8166
Fax: +1-510-642-4995
e-mail: planta@nature.berkeley.edu


	
Editor for invited reviews:
Professor Dierk Scheel
Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB)
Weinberg 3
D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Fax: +49-345-5582-1409
e-mail: dscheel@ipb-halle.de

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All papers, including Rapid communications, should be preceded by an
abstract in which the plant material (binomial including authority) and
EC numbers are given.


	
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order) characterizing the scope of the paper, the principal plant
materials (scientific generic names only) and the main topics treated.


	
Abbreviations


	
All manuscripts containing original nucleotide sequences must provide
nucleotide sequence database accession numbers.


	
Introduction


	
Material and methods
- provide authority of plant name(s), supplier/source plus address for
seeds/plant material
- provide timing and levels of illumination, temperature of growth
conditions


	
Results


	
Discussion


	
Acknowledgements
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Kerr EM, Fry SC (2004) Extracellular cross-linking of xylan and
xyloglucan in maize cell-suspension cultures: the role of oxidative
phenolic coupling. Planta 219:73-83

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