Spliceosomal Proteins in Plants -- Analysis of Alternative Splicing in Plants with Bioinformatics Tools -- Splice Site Requirements and Switches in Plants -- U12-Dependent Intron Splicing in Plants -- Plant SR Proteins and Their Functions -- Spatiotemporal Organization of Pre-mRNA Splicing Proteins in Plants -- Regulation of Splicing by Protein Phosphorylation -- mRNA Cap Binding Proteins: Effects on Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction, mRNA Processing, and Microarray Analyses -- Messenger RNA 3? End Formation in Plants -- State of Decay: An Update on Plant mRNA Turnover -- Regulation of Flowering Time by RNA Processing -- Alternative Splicing in Plant Defense -- Nuclear RNA Export and Its Importance in Abiotic Stress Responses of Plants -- Regulation of Alternative Splicing of Pre-mRNAs by Stresses -- Intron-Mediated Regulation of Gene Expression -- The Role of the Plant Nucleolus in Pre-mRNA Processing.