Table of Contents
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 as a 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 Hemoglobins; 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.