Issue 1

1 Induction of avirulence byAVR-Pita1in virulent U.S.fiel d isolates ofMagnaporthe oryzae

10 Molecular characterization of α-gliadin genes from common wheat cultivar Zhengmai 004 and their role in quality and celiac disease

22 Three photosynthetic patterns characterized by cluster analysis on gas exchange data in two rice populations

28 Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) evaluation and regional analysis of Chinese fava bean (Vicia fabaL.)

38 Establishment of the integrated applied core collection and its comparison with mini core collection in soybean (Glycine max)

46 Effect of nitrogen fertilizer on distribution of starch granules in different regions of wheat endosperm

55 Induced defense responses in rice plants against small brown planthopper infestation

63 Impacts of post-anthesis warming at nighttime on rice productivity and grain quality in East China

70 Integration of QTL detection and marker assisted selection for improving resistance to Fusarium head blight and important agronomic traits in wheat

79 Yield and tillering response of super hybrid rice Liangyoupeijiu to tillage and establishment methods

Yuntao Dai, Eugenia Winston, James C. Correll, Yulin Jia

Yuge Li, Ranran Xin, Dale Zhang, Suoping LI

Zaisong Ding, Tao Li, Xianguo Zhu, Xuefang Sun, Suhua

Huang, Baoyuan Zhou, Ming Zhao

Jiaojiao Wang, Hao Liu, Guixing Ren

Yong Guo, Yinghui Li, Huilong Hong, Li-Juan Qiu

Fei Xiong, Xurun Yu, Liang Zhou, Jing Zhang, Yanping Jin, Dongliang Li, Zhong Wang

Canxing Duan, Jiaojiao Yu, Jianyu Bai, Zhendong Zhu, Xiaoming Wang

Wenjun Dong, Jin Chen, Lili Wang, Yunlu Tian, Bin Zhang, Yongcai Lai, Ying Meng, Chunrong Qian, Jia Guo

Chao Lv, Yanxia Song, Lifeng Gao, Qin Yao, Ronghua Zhou, Rugen Xu, Jizeng Jia

M.A. Badshah, Naimei Tu, Yingbin Zou, M. Ibrahim, Ke Wang

Issue 2/3

87 Genome-wide analysis ofWRKYtranscription factor gene family inGossypium raimondiiand the expression of their orthologs in cultivated tetraploid cotton

102 Differential microRNA expression between shoots and rhizomes inOryza longistaminatausing high-throughput RNA sequencing

110 Diversification of primary gene pool through introgression of resistance for foliar diseases from synthetic amphidiploids to cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaeaL.)

120 Overexpression ofGmDREB1improves salt tolerance in transgenic wheat and leaf protein response to high salinity

132 Genetic characterization and linkage disequilibrium mapping of resistance to gray leaf spot in maize (Zea maysL.)

144 Effects of exogenous ABA application on post-anthesis dry matter redistribution and grain starch accumulation of winter wheat with different stay-green characteristics

154 Rank correlation among different statistical models in ranking of winter wheat genotypes

Caiping Cai, Erli Niu, Hao Du, Liang Zhao, Yue Feng, Wangzhen Guo

Ying Zong, Liyu Huang, Ting Zhang, Qiao Qin, Wensheng

Wang, Xiuqin Zhao, Fengyi Hu, Binying Fu, Zhikang Li

Varsha Kumari, M. V. C. Gowda, Vinod Tasiwal, Manish K.

Pandey, Ramesh S. Bhat, Nalini Mallikarjuna, Hari D.

Upadhyaya, Rajeev K. Varshney

Qiyan Jiang, Zheng Hu, Hui Zhang, Youzhi Ma

Liyu Shi, Xiangling Lv, Jianfeng Weng, Hanyong Zhu, Changlin Liu, Zhuanfang Hao, Yu Zhou, Degui Zhang, Mingshun Li, Xiaoke Ci, Xinhai Li, Shihuang Zhang

Dongqing Yang, Yongli Luo, Yingli Ni, Yanping Yin, Weibing

Yang, Dianliang Peng, Zhengyong Cui, Zhenlin Wang

Mozaffar Roostaei, Reza Mohammadi, Ahmed Amri

164 Cultivation of high glyphosate-tolerant tobacco by co-expression of glyphosate acetyltransferase gat andEPSPS G2-aroAgenes

170 SSR genetic linkage map construction of pea (Pisum sativumL.) based on Chinese native varieties

Baoqing Dun, Xujing Wang, Wei Lu, Ming Chen, Wei

Zhang, Shuzhen Ping, Zhixing Wang, Baoming Zhang, Min Lin

Xuelian Sun, Tao Yang, Junjie Hao, Xiaoyan Zhang, Rebecca Ford, Junye Jiang, Fang Wang, Jianping Guan, Xuxiao Zong

Issue 4

175 Phenotypic Analysis and Molecular Characterization of an Allelic Mutant of theD61Gene in Rice

183 Development and mapping of SSR markers linked to resistance-gene homologue clusters in common bean

195 Variation and trends in dough rheological properties and flour quality in 330 Chinese wheat varieties

201 Effect of stripe rust on the yield response of wheat to nitrogen

207 Effects of free-air CO2enrichment on adventitious root development of rice under low and normal soil nitrogen levels

213 Evaluation of maize inbred lines currently used in Chinese breeding programs for resistance to six foliar diseases

223 Effect of different levels of nitrogen deficiency on switchgrass seedling growth

235 Optimal yield-related attributes of irrigated rice for high yield potential based on path analysis and stability analysis

244 Genome-wide analysis and identification of cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (CKX) gene family in foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

Yanan Gao, Guangquan Wang, Shoujiang Yuan, Yanling

Qin, Jinfeng Zhao, Yanpei Zhang, Wenhui Zhang, Xueyong Li

Luz Nayibe Garzon, Matthew Wohlgemuth Blair

Xiushi Yang, Li Wu, Zhihua Zhu, Guixing Ren, Sancai Liu

Rakhesh Devadas, Steven Simpfendorfer, David

Backhouse, David W. Lamb

Chengming Sun, Lijian Wang, Tao Liu, Doudou Guo, Yingying Chen, Wei Wu, Yulong Wang, Jianguo Zhu

Xiaoming Wang, Yunhua Zhang, Xiude Xu, Hongjie Li, Xiaofei Wu, Shihuang Zhang, Xinhai Li

Yi Zhu, Xifeng Fan, Xincun Hou, Juying Wu, Tao Wang

Ganghua Li, Jun Zhang, Congdang Yang, Yunpan Song, Chengyan Zheng, Shaohua Wang, Zhenghui Liu, Yanfeng Ding

Yuange Wang, Huaihua Liu, Qingguo Xin

Issue 5

255 Isolation and characterization of a novel wall-associated kinase geneTaWAK5in wheat (Triticum aestivum)

267 An expedited method to isolation of DNA for PCR fromMagnaporthe oryzaestored on filter paper

272 Morphological,cytological and molecular analyses of a synthesized hexaploid derived from an interspecific hybrid betweenGossypium hirsutumandGossypium anomalum

278 Genetic dissection of tetraploid cotton resistant toVerticilliumwilt using interspecific chromosome segment introgression lines

289 The impacts of conservation agriculture on crop yield in China depend on specific practices,crops and cropping regions

297 Effect of subsoil tillage depth on nutrient accumulation,root distribution,and grain yield for spring maize

308 Identification of QTL for adult-plant resistance to powdery mildew in Chinese wheat landrace Pingyuan 50

315Exp2polymorphisms associated with variation for fiber quality properties in cotton (Gossypiumspp.)

Kun Yang, Lin Qi, Zengyan Zhang

Yulin Jia, Yeshi A Wamishe, Bo Zhou

Xia Zhang, Caijiao Zhai, Linchi He, Qi Guo, Xianggui

Zhang, Peng Xu, Hongmei Su, Yuanyong Gong, Wanchao Ni, Xinlian Shen

Peng Wang, Zhiyuan Ning, Ling Lin, Hong Chen, Hongxian Mei, Jun Zhao, Bingliang Liu, Xin Zhang, Wangzhen Guo, Tianzhen Zhang

Chengyan Zheng, Yu Jiang, Changqing Chen, Yanni Sun, Jinfei Feng, Aixing Deng, Zhenwei Song, Weijian Zhang

Hongguang Cai, Wei Ma, Xiuzhi Zhang, Jieqing Ping, Xiaogong Yan, Jianzhao Liu, Jingchao Yuan, Lichun Wang, Jun Ren

Muhammad Azeem Asad, Bin Bai, Caixia Lan, Jun Yan, Xianchun Xia, Yong Zhang, Zhonghu He

Daohua He, Zhongping Lei, Hongyi Xing, Baoshan Tang, Junxing Zhao, Bixia Lu

329 Genotype × environment interaction effects on early fresh storage root yield and related traits in cassava

338 Productivity,quality and soil health as influenced by lime in ricebean cultivars in foothills of northeastern India

Robooni Tumuhimbise, Rob Melis,Paul Shanahan, Robert Kawuki

Rakesh Kumar, Dibyendu Chatterjee, Narendra

Kumawat, Avinash Pandey, Aniruddha Roy, Manoj Kumar

Issue 6

345 Genetic background effects on QTL and QTL × environment interaction for yield and its component traits as revealed by reciprocal introgression lines in rice

358 Mapping and validation of a dominant salt tolerance gene in the cultivated soybean (Glycine max) variety Tiefeng 8

366 Differences between soybean genotypes in physiological response to sequential soil drying and rewetting

381 A MITE insertion into the 3'-UTR regulates the transcription ofTaHSP16.9in common wheat

388 Growth,photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism in soybean varieties after exclusion of UV-B and UV-A/B components of solar radiation

398 Molecular detection ofXanthomonas oryzaepv.oryzae,Xanthomonas oryzaepv.oryzicola,and Burkholderia glumae in infected rice seeds and leaves

407 Maize forage aptitude: combining ability of inbred lines and stability of hybrids

419 Identification of SNPs in barley (Hordeum vulgareL.) by deep sequencing of six reduced representation libraries

Xiaoqian Wang, Yunlong Pang, Jian Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Yonghong Tao, Bo Feng, Tianqing Zheng, Jianlong Xu, Zhikang Li

Rongxia Guan, Jiangang Chen, Jinghan Jiang, Guangyu

Liu, Ying Liu, Lei Tian, Lili Yu, Ruzhen Chang , Lijuan Qiu

Md Mokter Hossain, Xueyi Liu, Xusheng Qi, Hon-Ming

Lam, Jianhua Zhang

Jingting Li, Zhenzhong Wang, Huiru Peng, Zhiyong Liu

Sanjay Singh Baroniya, Sunita Kataria, Govind Prakash

Pandey, Kadur N. Guruprasad

Wen Lu, Luqi Pan, Haijun Zhao, Yulin Jia, Yanli Wang, Xiaoping Yu, Xueyan Wang

Luis Máximo Bertoia, Mónica Aulicino

Ganggang Guo, Dawa Dondup, Lisha Zhang, Sha Hu, Xingmiao Yuan, Jing Zhang