Masato Nakai
Taiwan-Japan Plant Biology 2017 (TJPB2017) was the first joint meeting organized between the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists and the Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists. It was held in Taipei, between the 3rd and 6th November 2017, and included 75 invited talks, 73 short talks and 350 poster presentations (see pp. 1099–1103, Nishimura et al. 2018). In this Spotlight Issue, we present some of the emerging themes discussed during the TJPB2017 sessions on light response, photosynthesis, and organelles, entitled ‘From light signals/signaling to photosynthesis and chloroplast development’.