1. Reproduction in microalgae / Romain Gastineau, Nikolai A. Davidovich, Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff, Ian Probert and Jean-Luc Mouget -- 2. Mechanism of sexual reproduction in fresh water microalgae / Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Jun Abe and Yuki Tsuchikane -- 3. Reproduction in bryophytes / Adaises Simone Maciel-Silva and Katia Cavalcanti Porto -- 4. The cytological studies of oogenesis and fertilization of ferns / Cao Jian-Guo -- 5. Pollen-ovule interactions in gymnosperms / Stefan Little, Natalie Prior, Cary Pirone and Patrick von Aderkas -- 6. Determination of sex expression in cycads / Marufa Sultana, Kalyan K. Mukherjee and Gaurab Gangopadhyay -- 7. Storage lipids in developing and germinating pollen grain of flowering plants / Agnieszka Zienkiewicz, Krzysztof Zienkiewicz and Maria Isabel Rodriguez-Garcia -- 8. Pollination biology and breeding system of European Fritillaria meleagris L. (Liliaceae) / Marcin Zych, Malgorzata Stpiczynska and Katarzyna Roguz -- 9. Genetics and reproductive biology of cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) : implications in breeding / Jane Muthoni, Hussein Shimelis and Rob Melis -- 10. Reproductive biological characteristics of Dendrobium species / Xianyu Shen, Chenggang Liu and Kaiwen Pan -- 11. Biotic pollination : how plants achieve conflicting demands of attraction and restriction of potential pollinators / K.R. Shivanna -- 12. Nectar : plant interface for complex interaction with biotic environment / Massimo Nepi -- 13. Hormonal status of the pollen-pistil system : role after pollination / Kovaleva L.V., Zakharova E.V., Andreev I.M. and Voronkov A.S. -- 14. Prevalence of self-sterility and other reproductive traits in angiosperm families with high diversification rates / Miriam M. Ferrer, Sara V. Good and Jennie Herbin -- 15. Polyembryony / Kundan Kishore.