Review.- Milestones in Plastid Genetics of Higher Plants.- Genetics.- Structural Genome Analysis Using Molecular Cytogenetic Techniques.- Function of Genetic Material: Genes Involved in Quantitative and Qualitative Resistance.- Extranuclear Inheritance: Functional Genomics in Chloroplasts.- Molecular Cell Biology: Mechanisms and Regulation of Protein Import into the Plant Cell Nucleus.- Genetics of Phytopathology: Pathogenicity Factors and Signal Transduction in Plant-pathogenic Fungi.- Key Genes of Crop Domestication and Breeding: Molecular Analyses.- Physiology.- Redox Regulation in Oxigenic Photosynthesis.- NO Production in Plants: Nitrate Reductase Versus Nitric Oxide Synthase.- Organismic Interactions and Plant Water Relations.- Pathways and Enzymes of Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis.- Ecology.- Stomatal Water Relations and the Control of Hydraulic Supply and Demand.- Spatially Explicit Vegetation Models: What Have We Learned?.- The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Composition and Dynamics of Plant Communities: A Scaling Issue.- History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary.- Diversity and Ecology of Biological Crusts.