ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This research was funded by grants from the Competitive Grants Program of the USDA/NRI (99-35100-
7545). The authors thank T. Leustek for providing APRcDNA clones and the ArabidopsisBiological Re-
source Center for the ArabidopsiscDNA library, EST clones, and seeds.
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