Fascination with Chloroplasts and Chromosome Pairing -- Recombination: Cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in higher plants -- Function of genetic material: From genomics to functional markers in maize -- Extranuclear inheritance: Gene transfer out of plastids -- Molecular cell biology: Epigenetic gene silencing in plants -- Genetics of phytopathology: Secondary metabolites as virulence determinants of fungal plant pathogens -- Plant Breeding: MADS ways of memorizing winter: vernalization in weed and wheat -- Biotechnology: Engineered male sterility in plant hybrid breeding -- Membrane turnover in plants -- Besides water: Functions of plant membrane intrinsic proteins and aquaporins -- New insight into auxin perception, signal transduction and transport -- New insights into abiotic stress signalling in plants -- Genetically transformed root cultures — generation, properties and application in plant sciences -- Molecular chaperones—holding and folding -- Recent progress in floristic research in Korea -- Recent progress in systematics in China -- Structural determinants of leaf light-harvesting capacity and photosynthetic potentials -- Recent trends in plant-ecological modelling: Species dynamics in grassland systems -- Atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment effects on ecosystems — experiments and the real world -- Quaternary Palaeoecology: Central and South America, Antarctica and the Pacific Ocean Region -- Biodiversity experiments — artificial constructions or heuristic tools? -- Resource allocation in clonal plants.