Progress in Botany 77

Part I. Review

1. Transport Processes: The Key Integrators in Plant Biology
Ulrich Lüttge

Part II. Revisiting Principles of Plant Life – Integration of Whole-Plant Functionality Under Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective

2. Roles of Memory and Circadian Clock in the Ecophysiological Performance of Plants
Ulrich Lüttge, Michel Thellier

3. Root Pressure: Getting to the Root of Pressure
Sanjay Singh

4. Light- and CO2-Dependent Systemic Regulation of Photosynthesis
Ryo Matsuda, Keach Murakami

5. Hierarchy and Information in a System Approach to Plant Biology: Explaining the Irreducibility in Plant Ecophysiology
Gustavo M. Souza, Suzana C. Bertolli, Ulrich Lüttge

6. Plants Shape the Terrestrial Environment on Earth: Challenges of Management for Sustainability
Ulrich Lüttge

7. Shaping Theoretic Foundations of Holobiont-Like Systems
Wolfgang zu Castell, Frank Fleischmann, Tina Heger, Rainer Matyssek

8. Advances in Genetic Diversity Analysis in Fruit Tree Crops
Nerea Larrañaga, José Ignacio Hormaza

9. Transposon Activation Tagging in Plants for Gene Function Discovery
Matthias Fladung

10. Evolution of the Flowering Pathways
Eva Lucas-Reina, M Isabel Ortiz-Marchena, Francisco J. Romero-Campero, Myriam Calonje, José M. Romero, Federico Valverde

Part III. Physiology

11. Boron Stress and Plant Carbon and Nitrogen Relations
Sasmita Mishra, Scott Heckathorn

12. Diversity and Evolution of Sexual Strategies in Silene: A Review
Inés Casimiro-Soriguer, Eduardo Narbona, M Luisa Buide

Part IV. Ecology

13. Freezing Stress in Tree Xylem
Stefan Mayr, Thierry Améglio

14. Canary Island Pine (Pinus canariensis), an Evergreen Species in a Semiarid Treeline
Gerhard Wieser, Patricia Brito, José R. Lorenzo, Águeda Ma. González-Rodríguez, Domingo Morales, María S. Jiménez

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Tree Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Plant Biochemistry