Solanaceae news
SOL International - the first virtual meeting of the SOL genomics community
We are all disappointed not to be meeting together in Greece this year, but fear not, the community is still planning to meet at SOL International Online from 9 to 11 November.Solanaceae Source in SpeciesLink
Brazilian specimens of the Solanaceae Source database became available today through SpeciesLink, Brazil's major biodiversity data portal. A total of 1,466 specimens of Solanaceae from the Natural History Museum London (BM) are now available within SpeciesLink searches, integrating the specialist database for the nightshade family with Brazil's digitally available collection data.
A new Solanum from the heart of Texas
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 haSolanaceae selected as a pilot family for the Flora do Brasil project
Brazilian botanists came together at a series of workshops held at the Brazilian 64th Congresso Nacional de Botânica in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) to map out the ambitious project of describing the extraordinary plant diversity of the country by 2020, as a contribution to meeting the first target of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Brazil holds almost 10% of the world’s plant diversity – understanding Brazil is really important for understanding global plant diversity!
Thanks to the hard work of Jennifer Poore, with the assistance of Ellen Dean and Lynn Bohs, the descriptions of the 49 species (and 4 infraspecific taxa) of Lycianthes treated in the recent