A “quarantine” of new species: Spanish botanists continue to discover biodiversity during the pandemic

Throughout 2020, the work of Spanish botanists has been defined by one word: “lockdown”. Not only because this year’s coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for them to do what is in their blood – heading out into the countryside to study plants – but also because they have described more than forty plant species … Read more

The 2nd Spanish Botany Symposium has been postponed

Due to the circumstances arising from COVID, the symposium “Natural Hybridisation and Allopolyploidy. Importance for Plant Biodiversity and Evolution”. The new dates are 12 and 13 November 2021, in the Biology Lecture Theatre at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Watch this space… Read more

The 2nd Spanish Botany Symposium has been postponed

Due to the circumstances arising from COVID, the symposium “Natural Hybridisation and Allopolyploidy. Importance for Plant Biodiversity and Evolution”. The new dates are 12 and 13 November 2021, in the Biology Lecture Theatre at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Watch this space… Read more

Great success for the First Spanish Botany Symposium

More than 160 registered participants attended the two-day symposium on the usefulness of phylogenomics in the study of complex plant genera, held at the University of Seville on 7 and 8 February. The event brought together experts and nearly a hundred postgraduate and PhD students to … Read more