1. From the new Editor-in-Chief

   • Kazuhiko Nishitani

   Editorial 26 July 2005 Pages: 235 - 236

2. Protein targeting into plastids: a key to understanding the symbiogenetic acquisitions of plastids

   • Ken-ichiro Ishida

   Current Topics in Plant Research 26 July 2005 Pages: 237 - 245

   

3. A new scenario of plastid evolution: plastid primary endosymbiosis before the divergence of the “Plantae,” emended

   • Hisayoshi Nozaki

   Current Topics in Plant Research 20 July 2005 Pages: 247 - 255

   

4. Moth pollination of Metaplexis japonica (Apocynaceae): pollinaria transfer on the tip of the proboscis

   • Shinji Sugiura
   • Kazuo Yamazaki

   Original Article 30 July 2005 Pages: 257 - 262

   

5. Tissue-water relations of two co-occurring evergreen Mediterranean species in response to seasonal and experimental drought conditions

   • Lydia Serrano
   • Josep Peñuelas
   • Robert Savé

   Original Article 26 July 2005 Pages: 263 - 269

   

6. Molecular phylogenetics of subtribe Aeridinae (Orchidaceae): insights from plastid matK and nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences

   • Topik Hidayat
   • Tomohisa Yukawa
   • Motomi Ito

   Original Article 16 July 2005 Pages: 271 - 284

   

7. Aerenchyma tissue development and gas-pathway structure in root of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh.

   • Hery Purnobasuki
   • Mitsuo Suzuki

   Original Article 30 July 2005 Pages: 285 - 294