1. Virtual issue: Alpine and subalpine plant communities: importance of plant growth, reproduction and community assemblage processes for changing environments

   • Koichi Takahashi

   Editorial 27 September 2018 Pages: 891 - 894

2. Preface

   • Yasutomo Hoshika
   • Takayoshi Koike

   Preface 07 November 2018 Pages: 895 - 896

3. Effect of forest thinning and wood quality on the short-term wood decomposition rate in a Pinus tabuliformis plantation

   • Weiwei Wang
   • Deborah Page-Dumroese
   • Yong Liu

   JPR Symposium 30 October 2018 Pages: 897 - 905

   

4. Mesophyll conductance to CO₂ in leaves of Siebold’s beech (Fagus crenata) seedlings under elevated ozone

   • Makoto Watanabe
   • Yu Kamimaki
   • Takeshi Izuta

   JPR Symposium 10 September 2018 Pages: 907 - 914

5. Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus imbalance on photosynthetic traits of poplar Oxford clone under ozone pollution

   • Lu Zhang
   • Yasutomo Hoshika
   • Elena Paoletti

   JPR Symposium 13 November 2018 Pages: 915 - 924

   

6. Staminate flower of Prunus s. l. (Rosaceae) from Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine)

   • Dmitry D. Sokoloff
   • Michael S. Ignatov
   • Evgeny E. Perkovsky

   Regular Paper 21 July 2018 Pages: 925 - 943

   

7. Phylogenetic analysis reveals the origins of tetraploid and hexaploid species in the Japanese Lepisorus thunbergianus (Polypodiaceae) complex

   • Tao Fujiwara
   • Shunsuke Serizawa
   • Yasuyuki Watano

   Regular Paper 25 August 2018 Pages: 945 - 959

   

8. Why is chlorophyll b only used in light-harvesting systems?

   • Atsushi Kume
   • Tomoko Akitsu
   • Kenlo Nishida Nasahara

   Regular Paper Open access 10 July 2018 Pages: 961 - 972

   

9. Nutrient deficiency promotes male-biased apparent sex ratios at the ramet level in the dioecious plant Myrica gale var. tomentosa in oligotrophic environments in bogs

   • Inoue Mizuki
   • Kiyoshi Ishida
   • Atsushi Kume

   Regular Paper 14 July 2018 Pages: 973 - 985

   

10. Dependence of functional traits related to growth rates and their CO₂ response on multiple habitat climate factors across Arabidopsis thaliana populations

    • Hiroshi Ozaki
    • Riichi Oguchi
    • Kouki Hikosaka

    Regular Paper 25 July 2018 Pages: 987 - 999

    

11. Plant species diversity, community structure and invasion status in insular primary forests on the Sekimon uplifted limestone (Ogasawara Islands)

    • Tetsuto Abe
    • Nobuyuki Tanaka
    • Yoshikazu Shimizu

    Regular Paper 14 September 2018 Pages: 1001 - 1014

    

12. The role of calcium, silicon and salicylic acid treatment in protection of canola plants against boron toxicity stress

    • Ashraf M. Metwally
    • Abeer A. Radi
    • Afaf M. Hamada

    Regular Paper 22 January 2018 Pages: 1015 - 1028

    

13. Salt tolerance mechanisms in three Irano-Turanian Brassicaceae halophytes relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana

    • Roghieh Hajiboland
    • Sara Bahrami-Rad
    • Charlotte Poschenrieder

    Regular Paper 02 July 2018 Pages: 1029 - 1046

    

14. Cryopreservation of Marchantia polymorpha spermatozoa

    • Taisuke Togawa
    • Tohru Adachi
    • Katsuyuki T. Yamato

    Technical Note 31 July 2018 Pages: 1047 - 1054

    

15. Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgment 15 October 2018 Pages: 1055 - 1057