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CONTENTS PLANT EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 1982–2022: CHANGING QUESTIONS AND METHODS AS SEEN BY A PARTICIPANT PLANTS IN SPACE: NOVEL PHYSIOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND ADAPTATION MECHANISMS TERRESTRIALIZATION: THE CONQUEST OF DRY LAND BY PLANTS LEGACIES OF HUMAN LAND USE IMPACTS IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN FORESTS GLOBAL FOREST BIODIVERSITY: CURRENT STATE, TRENDS, AND THREATS AN OVERVIEW ON DENDROCHRONOLOGY AND QUANTITATIVE WOOD ANATOMY STUDIES OF CONIFERS IN SOUTHERN SIBERIA (RUSSIA) HOLOBIONTS IN THE PLANT KINGDOM EVOLUTION OF HOLOBIONT-LIKE SYSTEMS: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO COMPOSED ECOLOGICAL AND GLOBAL UNITS PLANT PROTEOLYSIS IN DEVELOPMENT: INSIGHTS AND FUNCTIONS EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR FRUIT MEMORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO POST-HARVEST PHYSIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW MOVEMENT OF AQUATIC OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS AN OVERVIEW OF WATER AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE BY EPIPHYTIC BROMELIADS: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ABSORPTIVE CAPABILITY OF LEAF TRICHOMES AND ROOTS PHI THICKENINGS: THEIR HISTORY, CURRENT STATUS AND ROLE(S) IN MECHANICALLY STRENGTHENING THE PLANT ROOT PLANT EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 1982–2022: CHANGING QUESTIONS AND METHODS AS SEEN BY A PARTICIPANT INTRODUCTION: WHY I STUDIED BIOLOGY AND ENDED UP IN SYSTEMATICS MONOGRAPHS, FLORAS, AND HERBARIUM-BASED SPECIES DISCOVERY: THE YEARS IN WASHINGTON, AARHUS, AND MAINZ THE MOVE TO MOLECULAR DATA: LIKELIHOOD, MOLECULAR CLOCKS, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER IN SEED PLANTS; MITOCHONDRIA, PLASTOMES, TRANSPOSONS, AND FINALLY NUCLEAR DATA FOR STUDYING PLANT DOMESTICATION FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY, PLANT/ANIMAL INTERACTIONS, AND DISCOVERY OF ANT-CULTIVATED RUBIACEAE BEE PHYLOGENY AND BEHAVIOUR, AND A BOTANICAL GARDEN AS A TERRARIUM PLANT SEXUAL SYSTEMS AND MOLECULAR CYTOGENETICS PHENOLOGY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS AS COMMON GARDENS HISTORY OF BOTANICAL COLLECTING AND NEW WAYS TO ACHIEVE STABLE SCIENTI?C NAMES EPILOGUE: THE INCREASING ROLE OF COLLABORATION IN SYSTEMATICS AND THE CHANGING POSITION OF SYSTEMATICS WITHIN BIOLOGY REFERENCES ABSTRACT THIS REVIEW DESCRIBES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THE RESEARCH TOPICS IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS, A TIME DURING WHICH THE STUDY OF PLANT EVOLUTION, SYSTEMATICS, AND BIODIVERSITY HAS MOVED FROM RELYING SOLELY ON MORPHOLOGY TO RELYING MOSTLY ON DNA SEQUENCES AND NOW PARTIALLY ASSEMBLED GENOMES WHEN I BEGAN TO DO SYSTEMATICS, TRAVELING TO TROPICAL COUNTRIES FOR ?ELDWORK WAS A BIG DRAW AND PROBABLY IN?UENCED MY INITIAL CHOICE OF PLANT GROUPS TO WORK ON IN 1989, I MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO SHIFT MY FOCUS FROM MONO- GRAPHS, ?ORAS, AND HERBARIUM-BASED SPECIES DISCOVERY TO THE EVOLUTION OF PLANT SEXUAL SYSTEMS AND THE FUNCTIONING OF UNISEXUAL ?OWERS, SELECTING ?RST SIPARUNACEAE AND THEN CUCURBITACEAE AS SUITABLE GROUPS I ALSO BECAME AN EARLY ADOPTER OF