Progress in Botany

Review. Milestones in Plastid Genetics of Higher Plants.- Genetics. Structural Genome Analysis Using Molecular Cytogenetic Techniques. Function of Genetic Material: Genes Involved in Quantitative and Qualitative Resistance. Extranuclear Inheritance: Functional Genomics in Chloroplasts. Molecular Cell Biology: Mechamisms and Regulation of Protein Import into the Plant Cell Nucleus. Genetics of Phytopathology: Pathogenicity Factors and Signal Transduction in Plant-pathogenic Fungi. Key Genes of Crop Domestication and Breeding: Molecular Analyses.- Physiology. Redox Regulation in Oxigenic Photosynthesis. NO Production in Plants: Nitrate Reductase Versus Nitric Oxide Synthase. Organism Interactions and Plant Water Relations. Pathways of Enzymes of Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis.- Ecology. Stomatal Water Relations and the Control of Hydraulic Supply and Demand. Spatially Explicit Vegetation Models: What Have We Learned? The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Composition and Dynamics of Plant Communities: A Scaling Issue. History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary. Diversity and Ecology of Biological Crusts.