New shifts in the Journal of Plant Research

The second JPR symposium, entitled “Responses of the photosynthetic systems to spatio-temporal variations in light environments: scaling and eco-devo approaches”, is scheduled for a May issue this year under the supervision of Drs. Hiroyuki Muraoka, Ichiro Terashima, and Yanhong Tang. In the outdoor environment, the quality and quantity of light available for photosynthesis change rapidly with regard to light environments within forest, canopy, branch, and leaf structures. How do plants respond appropriately to the changing light environments? Contributors to this symposium report and discuss recent advances in the mechanism and the process of photosynthetic acclimation of plants to the light environment, disclosing the flexible plant body plan for better photosynthesis. I would like to invite all of you to propose a JPR symposium for the coming Annual Meeting of the BSJ to be held 16–18 September 2016 in Okinawa. Two programs will be selected from applications, and recipients will receive some financial support from the BSJ and invitations for regular or review articles in the early issues of JPR 2018.