Abstract
Plant morphology and plant physiology are major subdisciplines in plant biology. Although the focus and approach differ each other, both morphological and physiological studies have discovered numerous important findings in the field of plant biology. In addition, microscopic techniques and analytical apparatuses are making remarkable advances and these advances, often involving molecular biological analyses, made researchers to understand plant cells more precisely than before. On the other hand, the gap between plant morphology and physiology is widening, because the techniques related to morphology and physiology are developed too high to be followed by a single researcher. In the 79th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan, we had a joint symposium with the Japanese Society of Plant Morphology and IIRS focusing how we can integrate morphology and physiology.
