1. New Year’s greetings 2020 from the Journal of Plant Research

   • Kouki Hikosaka

   Editorial 02 January 2020 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Molecular mechanisms mediating root hydrotropism: what we have observed since the rediscovery of hydrotropism

   • Yutaka Miyazawa
   • Hideyuki Takahashi

   Current Topics in Plant Research Open access 04 December 2019 Pages: 3 - 14

   

3. Complex origins of chloroplast membranes with photosynthetic machineries: multiple transfers of genes from divergent organisms at different times or a single endosymbiotic event?

   • Naoki Sato

   Regular Paper – Taxonomy/Phylogenetics/Evolutionary Biology Open access 06 December 2019 Pages: 15 - 33

   

4. Dorsoventral photosynthetic asymmetry of tobacco leaves in response to direct and diffuse light

   • Xiaolin Wang
   • Huifeng Yan
   • Yi Shi

   Regular Paper 19 November 2019 Pages: 35 - 48

   

5. Aerenchyma and barrier to radial oxygen loss are formed in roots of Taro (Colocasia esculenta) propagules under flooded conditions

   • Tomomi Abiko
   • Susan C. Miyasaka

   Regular Paper 13 November 2019 Pages: 49 - 56

   

6. NaCl treatment markedly enhanced pollen viability and pollen preservation time of euhalophyte Suaeda salsa via up regulation of pollen development-related genes

   • Jianrong Guo
   • Xinxiu Dong
   • Baoshan Wang

   Regular Paper 25 October 2019 Pages: 57 - 71

   

7. Hormonal and transcriptional analyses of fruit development and ripening in different varieties of black pepper (Piper nigrum)

   • Choy-Yuen Khew
   • Izumi C. Mori
   • Siaw-San Hwang

   Regular Paper - Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular and Cellular Biology 18 December 2019 Pages: 73 - 94

   

8. Molecular cloning of putative chloroplastic cysteine synthase in Leucaena leucocephala

   • Md. Harun-Ur-Rashid
   • Shigeki Oogai
   • Hirosuke Oku

   Regular Paper – Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular and Cellular Biology 11 December 2019 Pages: 95 - 108

   

9. Assessment of Polygala paniculata (Polygalaceae) characteristics for evolutionary studies of legume–rhizobia symbiosis

   • Yuji Tokumoto
   • Kayo Hashimoto
   • Masayoshi Kawaguchi

   Regular Paper – Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular and Cellular Biology Open access 11 December 2019 Pages: 109 - 122

   

10. High-throughput screening for in planta characterization of VOC biosynthetic genes by PTR-ToF-MS

    • Mingai Li
    • Luca Cappellin
    • Claudio Varotto

    Technical Note Open access 07 November 2019 Pages: 123 - 131

    

11. Non-destructive DNA extraction from herbarium specimens: a method particularly suitable for plants with small and fragile leaves

    • Norimasa Sugita
    • Atsushi Ebihara
    • Tomohisa Yukawa

    Technical Note 23 November 2019 Pages: 133 - 141

    

12. Correction to: Towards the conservation of the Mesozoic relict fern Christensenia: a fern species with extremely small populations in China

    • Hongmei Liu
    • Harald Schneider
    • Phyo Kay Khine

    Correction 09 December 2019 Pages: 143 - 145