With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.

Review

Crassulacean Acid Metabolism: Now and Then
Genetics
Function of Genetic Material: Progressive Insight into Antimicrobial Peptides and their Transcriptional Regulation
Function of Genetic Material: Assembly Factors of the Photosynthetic Machinery in Cyanobacteria
Extranuclear Inheritance: Genetics and Biogenesis of Mitochondria
Extranuclear Inheritance: Virus-Like DNA-Elements in Yeast
Population Genetics: Evolutionary Features of Asexual Species
Plant Breeding: Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Crop Plants and its Exploitation in Breeding
Plant Breeding: Antisense ODN Inhibition in in vitro spike cultures as a powerful Diagnostic Tool in Studies on Cereal Grain Development
Physiology
Characean Algae: Still a Valid Model System to Examine Fundamental Principles in Plants
Receptors for the Five Classical Plant Hormones
Spatiotemporal Patterns and Distributed Computation-A Formal Link between CO2 Signalling, Diffusion and Stomatal Regulation
Plant Haemoglobins, Nitrate and Nitric Oxide: Old Players, New Games
Living in Day-Night Cycles-Specific Diel Leaf Growth Patterns and the Circadian Control of Photomorphogenesis
Ecology
Competitive Networks, Indirect Interactions, and Allelopathy: A Microbial Viewpoint on Plant Communities
Quaternary Palaeoecology: Isotopes as Valuable Aids in Palaeoecological Research
Competition for Resources in Trees: Physiological Versus Morphological Plasticity
Explaining Variation in Fine Root Life Span.