Second edition, published: September 29, 2011
Welcome to the Swiss Plant Science Web, the umbrella organization for research and education in academic plant science in Switzerland.
The second edition of the SPSW newsletter reports about:
- The European research initiative EuroVol, supporting research on plant volatiles
- We introduce you to ONSEN - a jumping gene in Arabidopsis thaliana, but more than a peace of junk
- Forests signify life - read the article referring to the UN Year of Forests, 2011
- Enjoy the articles contributed by our network partners: news, interactions, and a special field trip
- How do plants cope with ecological change? PhD students discussed the issue during the SPSW PhD Summer School 2011
- Knowledge of species gets lost but increasingly important, read about
flore suisse, a competition for connoisseurs - Who is the guy with the computers? Get to know SPSW bioinformatician Stefan Zoller and read also: When usability is not enough - In Dialogue with a Computer
- What do you want to know about plant science in Germany? Pflanzenforschung.de has the answers
- Networking is most important - swissnex helps us to get connected