With my colleague Jean-Claude Kader, who unfortunately prematurely passed away in July 2018, we edited eighteen issues of Advances in Botanical Research, including ten eclectic and eight thematic volumes. The topics discussed in these articles are briefly described and recent advances in these various fields are reviewed. The main topics concerned developmental biology, cell biology and metabolism, plantmicroorganism interactions, environmental and stress biology and, finally, monographs and reviews in genomics.