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PLANT AND SOIL Contents Volume 232, Nos. 1-2 May 2001 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE ON RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS IACR-ROTHAMSTED, United Kingdom, 10-12 April, 2000 Guest editors: David Powlson, Geoff Bateman, Keith Davies, John Gaunt, Penny Hirsch & Peter Barlow Foreword Section 1 Signalling and recognition in the root environment Analysis of N-acyl homoserine-lactone quorum-sensing molecules made by different strains and biovars of Rhizobium leguminosarum containing different symbiotic plas- mids J.K. Lithgow, V.E. Danino, J. Jones and J.A. Downie Signalling between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: identification of a gene expressed during early interactions by differential RNA display analysis H. Roussel, D. van Tuinen, P. Franken, S. Gianinazzi and V. Gianinazzi-Pearson Methods for studying the nematophagous fungus Verticillium chlamydosporium in the root environment PR. Hirsch, S.D. Atkins, T.H. Mauchline, C.O. Morton, K.G. Davies and B.R. Kerry Does allelopathy offer real promise for practical weed management and for explaining rhizosphere interactions involving higher plants? M.A. Birkett, K. Chamberlain, A.M. Hooper and J.A. Pickett Section 2 Root structure and function Root proliferation, nitrate inflow and their carbon costs during nitrogen capture by competing plants in patchy soil D. Robinson The nutritional control of root development B. Forde and H. Lorenzo Effect of phosphorus availability on basal root shallowness in common bean H. Liao, G. Rubio, X. Yan, A. Cao, K.M. Brown and J.P. Lynch A comparison of structure, development and function in cluster roots of Lupinus albus L. under phosphate and iron stress J. Hagström, W.M. James and K.R. Skene Section 3 Biologically-mediated processes in the root environment Rhizosphere carbon flow measurement and implications: from isotopes to reporter genes K. Killham and C. Yeomans Soil and rhizosphere as habitats for Pseudomonas inoculants: new knowledge on distribution, activity and physiological state derived from micro-scale and single-cell studies J. Sorensen, L.E. Jensen and O. Nybroe 97-108 Sulphur and phosphorus transport systems in plants F.W. Smith 109-118 incorporating rhizosphere processes into field-scale (agro)ecosystem models J. Arah 119-127 Plant-mediated processess to acquire nutrients: nitrogen uptake by rice plants G.J.D. Kirk 129-134 Section 4 Biodiversity in the root environment Plants and fertilisers as drivers of change in microbial community structure and function in soils A.G. O’Donnell, M. Seasman, A. Macrae, |. Waite and J.T. Davies 135-145 Soil fungi: diversity and detection P. Bridge and B. Spooner 147-154 On the relationships between nematodes, mycorrhizal fungi and plants: functional composition of species and plant performance L. Brussaard, T.W. Kuyper and R.G.M. de Goede 155-165 Bacterial diversity of the rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays) grown in tropical soil studied by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis N.C.M. Gomes, H. Heuer, J. Schönfeld, R. Costa, L. Mendonca-Hagler and K. Smalla 167-180 Monitoring temporal and spatial variation in rhizosphere bacterial population diversity: A community approach for the improved selection of rhizosphere competent bacteria V.J Goddard, M.J. Bailey, P. Darrah, A.K. Lilley and I.P. Thompson 181-193 Section 5 Exploitation of rhizosphere interactions Enhancing the biocontrol efficacy of Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 by altering the regulation and production of 2,4-diacetyiphloroglucinol LR. Delany, U.F. Walsh, |. Ross, A.M. Fenton, D.M. Corkery and F. O’Gara 195-205 Plant and rhizosphere processes involved in phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soils S.P. McGrath, F.J. Zhao and E. Lombi 207-214 An integrated approach for the evaluation of biological control of the complex Polymyxa betae/Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein Virus, by means of seed inoculants R. Resca, M. Basaglia, S. Poggiolini, P. Vian, S. Bardin, U.F. Walsh, C.M. Enriquez Barreiros, F. O’Gara, M.P. Nuti, S. Casella and U. Peruch 215-226 instructions for Authors 227-233 i = iae