Torn Between Nature and Lab: A Dying Breed of Plant Scientists? -- Advances in Plant Sulfur Metabolism and Signaling -- Plant Vacuolar Sorting: An Overview -- Reactive Nitrogen Species (RNS) in Plants Under Physiological and Adverse Environmental Conditions: Current View -- Extracellular ATP: An Essential Apoplastic Messenger in Plants -- Exploration of Sweet Immunity to Enhance Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Lessons from CAM -- Physiology and Spatio-temporal Relations of Nutrient Acquisition by Roots and Root Symbionts -- The Biodiversity of the Yucatan Peninsula: A Natural Laboratory -- Glacier forelands: lessons of plant population and community development -- The "Forgotten" Ecology Behind Ecological Status Evaluation: Re-Assessing the Roles of Aquatic Plants and Benthic Algae in Ecosystem Functioning -- Beneficial Soil Microbiota as Mediators of the Plant Defensive Phenotype and Aboveground Plant-Herbivore Interactions -- Unraveling the Importance of Inter- and Intraspecific Competition for the Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change -- Plants and Atmospheric Aerosols -- Solar UV Irradiation-Induced Production of Greenhouse Gases from Plant Surfaces: From Leaf to Earth.

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 physiology, biochemistry, ecology, and ecosystems.