1. Editorial

   • Antonio Salatino

   Editorial 29 November 2014 Pages: 373 - 373

2. Obituary Dr. Gil Felippe

   Obituary 05 December 2014 Pages: 375 - 376

3. Metal stress in plants: its detoxification in natural environment

   • R. K. Upadhyay

   REVIEW PAPER 09 August 2014 Pages: 377 - 382

   

4. Optimization of the nitrate reductase activity assay for citrus trees

   • Verónica Lorena Dovis
   • Franz Walter Rieger Hippler
   • Dirceu Mattos Jr.

   OriginalPaper 09 August 2014 Pages: 383 - 390

   

5. Physiological performances of two populations of Compsopogon caeruleus (Rhodophyta) to inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus impoverishment

   • Anna Isabel Nassar Bautista
   • Orlando Necchi-Júnior

   OriginalPaper 10 August 2014 Pages: 391 - 398

6. Exogenous proline and glycinebetaine mitigate cadmium stress in two genetically different spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars

   • Rizwan Rasheed
   • Muhammad Arslan Ashraf
   • Muhammad Iqbal

   OriginalPaper 24 September 2014 Pages: 399 - 406

   

7. Response of cotton crop to exogenous application of glycinebetaine under sufficient and scarce water conditions

   • Shakeel Ahmad
   • Ilyas Raza
   • Naeem Sarwar

   OriginalPaper 05 September 2014 Pages: 407 - 415

   

8. Seasonal variations in some water relations and biochemical attributes of two genetically diverse maize cultivars

   • Iqbal Hussain
   • Rizwan Rasheed
   • Abdul Wahid

   OriginalPaper 13 September 2014 Pages: 417 - 428

   

9. Time-course changes in growth and biochemical indices of mung bean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] genotypes under salinity

   • Syed Hammad Raza
   • Muhammad Bilal Ahmad
   • Fahad Shafiq

   OriginalPaper 12 September 2014 Pages: 429 - 439

   

10. Detecting ecological groups from traits: a classification of subtropical tree species based on ecological strategies

    • Alexandre F. Souza
    • Cristiane Forgiarini
    • Juliano M. Oliveira

    OriginalPaper 20 August 2014 Pages: 441 - 452

    

11. Influence of physical characteristics of environment (light and current velocity) on the substrate occupation by Spirogyra sp. in stream ecosystems

    • Rogério Antonio Krupek
    • Alexandre Empinotti
    • Eduardo Antonio Tusset Araujo

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2014 Pages: 453 - 459

    

12. Heavy metals accumulation causes toxicological effects in aquatic Typha domingensis Pers

    • Etem Osma
    • Veli İlhan
    • İbrahim Ertuğrul Yalçın

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2014 Pages: 461 - 467

    

13. Assessment of genetic diversity among some elite cultivars of ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) using isozyme and protein markers

    • Dattatreya Kar
    • Pratap Keshari Pattanaik
    • Budhadeva Mishra

    OriginalPaper 09 September 2014 Pages: 469 - 479

    

14. Leaf anatomy as subsidy to the taxonomy of wild Manihot species in Quinquelobae section (Euphorbiaceae)

    • Israel Lopes da Cunha Neto
    • Fabiano Machado Martins
    • Márcio Lacerda Lopes Martins

    OriginalPaper 12 August 2014 Pages: 481 - 494

    

15. Extrafloral nectary morphology and the role of environmental constraints in shaping its traits in a common Cerrado shrub (Maprounea brasiliensis A. St.-Hill: Euphorbiaceae)

    • Marina Neves Delgado
    • Sônia Nair Báo
    • Helena Castanheira de Morais

    OriginalPaper 25 September 2014 Pages: 495 - 504

    

16. Anatomy of vegetative organs in Aldama tenuifolia and A. kunthiana (Asteraceae: Heliantheae)

    • Edilmara Michelly Souza da Silva
    • Adriana Hissae Hayashi
    • Beatriz Appezzato-da-Glória

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2014 Pages: 505 - 517

    

17. Planktonic Radiococcaceae Fott ex Komárek of the Tigres Lake system, Britânia, Goiás State, Brazil

    • Frederico Rocha Rodrigues Alves
    • Watson Arantes Gama Jr.
    • Ina Souza de Nogueira

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2014 Pages: 519 - 530

    

18. Ectomycorrhizal fungal species of Kashmir Himalaya: identification and characterization by ITS analysis

    • Zahoor Ahmad Itoo
    • Qussin Basharat
    • Zafar A. Reshi

    OriginalPaper 12 August 2014 Pages: 531 - 542

    

19. Palynological study of Janusia A. Juss. and related genera (Malpighiaceae)

    • Renata Sebastiani
    • Maria Amélia Vitorino Cruz-Barros
    • Angela Maria da Silva Corrêa

    OriginalPaper 20 August 2014 Pages: 543 - 559

    

20. Arbuscular mycorrhizal and dark septate endophyte fungal associations in ferns and lycophytes of Palni Hills, Western Ghats, southern India

    • Thangavelu Muthukumar
    • Ganesan Sathiyaraj
    • Kullaiyan Sathiyadash

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2014 Pages: 561 - 581

    

21. Comparative evaluation of cytomorphological studies on 27 accessions of “Indian Ginseng” Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal from North India

    • Vivek Sharma
    • Harcharan S. Dhaliwal
    • Bikram Singh

    OriginalPaper 09 September 2014 Pages: 583 - 596

    

22. Parmotrema marcellii, a new species of Parmeliaceae (lichenized Ascomycota) from Brazil

    • Alice da Cruz Lima Gerlach
    • Sionara Eliasaro

    OriginalPaper 25 September 2014 Pages: 597 - 600

    

23. Karyotype analysis on 11 species of the genus Clematis

    • Lu Sheng
    • Kongshu Ji
    • Liangliang Yu

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2014 Pages: 601 - 608

    

24. Acacieae Benth. (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae) in Minas Gerais, Brazil

    • Vanessa Terra
    • Flávia Cristina Pinto Garcia

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2014 Pages: 609 - 630

    

25. Seedling structure in Asteraceae weedy species: considerations on the vasculature system

    • Luciane da Silva Santos
    • Higor Simionato Dariva
    • L. A. de Souza

    Short Communication 05 September 2014 Pages: 631 - 635

    

26. Spongites yendoi (Foslie) Chamberlain (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) on the coast of Bahia, Brazil

    • Iara Oliveira Costa
    • Paulo Antunes Horta
    • José Marcos de Castro Nunes

    BriefCommunication 05 September 2014 Pages: 637 - 641