With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on plant genetics, physiology, ecology, and evolution.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on plant genetics, physiology, ecology, and evolution.

Review.- Transport Processes-The Key Integrators in Plant Biology.- Re-visiting principles of plant life –integration of whole-plant functionality under ecological and evolutionary perspectives.- Roles of Memory and Circadian Clock in the Ecophysiological Performance of Plants.- Root Pressure: Getting to the Root of Pressure.- Light- and CO2-dependent Systemic Regulation of Photosynthesis.- Hierarchy and information in a system approach to plant biology: explaining the irreducibility in plant eco-physiology.- Plants shape the Terrestrial Environment on Earth  – Challenges of Management for Sustainability.- Shaping theoretic foundations of holobiont-like systems.- Advances in genetic diversity analysis in fruit tree crops.- Transposon activation tagging in plants for gene function discovery.- Evolution of the flowering pathways.- Physiology.- Boron Stress and Plant Carbon and Nitrogen Relations.- Diversity and Evolution of Sexual Strategies inSilene: a review.- Ecology.- Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis), an evergreen species in a semi-arid treeline.- Freezing Stress In Tree Xylem