New species are not only found in the back of beyond - solanum gurus Lynn Bohs and Stephen Stern together with Jeff Keeling of Sul Ross State University have just described Solanum cordicitum from Valentine, Texas - proving that botanists have excellent senses of humour! Read the University of Utah press release here and the report in Science. You can listen to Lynn describing the discovery on NPR radio here!
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- Breaking with tradition
- Hunting for wild spiny aubergines
- Collecting eggplants in South China
- Botany & Mycology conference 2009
- 2008 Botany meetings
- International Year of the Potato.
- Controversy about origins of the European potato.
- Botany & Plant Biology 2007
- Kangaroo Apple species found in Westminster
- A new Solanum from the heart of Texas
- Dated phylogeny of the Solanaceae published
- Mexican and Central American Lycianthes descriptions on Solanaceae Source
- SOL International - the first virtual meeting of the SOL genomics community
- Solanaceae Source in SpeciesLink
- Solanaceae selected as a pilot family for the Flora do Brasil project
- Worldwide specimen locations