A symposium entitled “Imaging and its related technologies in plant biology” was held at the 75th meeting of the Botanic Society of Japan in September 2011. This symposium was co-supported by the Japanese Society of Plant Morphology and by the Non-profit Organization Integrated Imaging Research Support (NPO IIRS). In this issue, researchers who contributed the symposium write how imaging and its related technologies had and have been contributed to the study of plant biology.
