This seris keeps scientists and advanced students specialized on a particular subject informed of the latest developments and results in all different areas of botany. The present volume includes reviews on structuralbotany, physiology, genetics, taxonomy, geobotanic, as well as a contribution treating seed dispersal.

A. Structural Botany.- I. Cytology and Morphogenesis of Fungal Cells.- II. Cytosymbiosis and Its Significance in Cell Evolution.- III. Comparative Morphology and Anatomy of the Stem of the Flowering Plants.- B. Physiology.- I. Mineral Nutrition: Aluminium.- II. Secondary Plant Substances Special Topics of the Phenylpropanoid Metabolism.- III.Growth.- IV. Locomotion.- V. Cell Physiology — Ubiquitin..- C. Genetics.- I. Replication.- II. Recombination: Reconstruction of Agronomically Important Characters Recombinant DNA Technology.- III Mutation: Higher Plants.- IV.Function of Genetic Material: Activity of Genes in Transgenic Plants.- V. Extranuclear Inheritance: Plastid Genetics.- VI. Microbes and Microbial Products in Plant Protection.- VII. Population Genetics.- D. Taxonomy.- I. Evolution and Classification of Seed Plants.- II. Paleobotany.- III. Systematics, Morphology, and Ecology of Lichenized Fungi.- E. Geobotany.- I. The History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary.- II. Population Ecology.- III. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (Ecological Botany).- F. Special Topics.- I. Seed Disperal.