9 Hormone Regulation of Root Nodule Formation
in Lotus...................................... 85
Akihiro Suzuki
Part III Metabolic Pathways, Secondary Metabolites
and Defense Responses
10 Sucrose and Starch Metabolism..................... 97
Cécile Vriet, Anne Edwards, Alison M. Smith
and Trevor L. Wang
11 Genes Involved in Ammonium Assimilation............ 117
Carmen M. Pérez-Delgado, Margarita García-Calderón,
Alfredo Credali, JoséM. Vega, Marco Betti
and Antonio J. Márquez
12 Nitrate Transport and Signaling.................... 125
Vladimir Totev Valkov and Maurizio Chiurazzi
13 Reactive Oxygen/Nitrogen Species and Antioxidant
Defenses inLotus japonicus........................ 137
Manuel Becana, Manuel A. Matamoros, Javier Ramos,
Maria C. Rubio and Martha Sainz
14 Plant-Specialized Metabolism and Its Genomic
Organization in Biosynthetic Gene Clusters
inLotus japonicus............................... 149
Adam M. Takos and Fred Rook
15 Genes Involved in Pathogenesis and Defense Responses... 163
Tomomi Nakagawa, Shin Okazaki and Naoto Shibuya
16 Metabolomics.................................. 171
Yuji Sawada and Toshio Aoki
17 A Tutorial onLotus japonicusTranscriptomic Tools ..... 183
Jerome Verdier, Kaustav Bandyopadhyay
and Michael Udvardi
18 Proteomics.................................... 201
Svend Dam and Jens Stougaard
Part IV Resources
19 Wild Accessions and Mutant Resources............... 211
Masayoshi Kawaguchi and Niels Sandal
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