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Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 231, Pt 2 2008, pp. 191–
Introduction
This special ‘plant biology’ issue of the Journal of Microscopycontains a selection of the papers presented at the 8thInternational Botanical Microscopy meeting organized by theRoyal Microscopical Society, plus another plant microscopycontribution, focussing on microscopy.
Following the success of the 2003 Lisbon Meeting, this wasjust the second time the meeting has been held outside theUnited Kingdom. This time we visited Austria and were hostedby Ursula Lutz-Meindl at the Faculty of Natural Sciences,University of Salzburg, with Ursula, Nick Read (Universityof Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Chris Hawes (OxfordBrookes University, United Kingdom) making up the scientificorganizing committee. The event was kindly sponsored by theUniversity of Salzburg, the British Mycological Society and theJournal of Microscopy, and was also supported by a number ofcompanies through a small trade exhibition.
The conference was the latest in a series of meetings initiatedby the remarkable Professor Irene Manton back in the 1960sand constitutes one of the longest runs of a meeting in theRoyal Microscopical Society catalogue.
The papers presented here reflect the nature of thesemeetings with a mix of techniques combined with cell biologybased on microscopy and advanced imaging technologies. Asmay be expected, live-cell imaging still dominates, but thereis also a healthy mix of other light microscopy techniques,electron microscopy and quantitative analysis. I trust that you,the reader, will find this collection both useful and illuminatingand remain convinced that well-applied microscopy andimaging techniques are still the bedrock of plant cell biology.
PROF. CHRIS HAWESOxford Brookes University, U.K.
C© 2008 The AuthorJournal compilation C© 2008 The Royal Microscopical Society