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Swiss Plant Science Web
Welcome to the website of the Swiss Society of Plant Biology. This website is the Swiss Portal for Plant Sciences that offers information on plant science research, events and education at universities in Switzerland.
The Brachypodium Research Conference takes place from July 6- 10 in Monte Verità, Switzerland
An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish.
Caspar Bauhin was probably the most famous botanist of his time. The Basel-based professor collected plants from all over the world and set new standards in botany that continue to have an impact today. Now, he is the subject of an…
The New Phytologist Tansley Medal
We are excited to announce that the main programme for the Botanik-Tagung 2024 – International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) – is now available online!
The war in Ukraine is also a war for soil. Sebastian Dötterl, Professor for Soil Resources at ETH Zurich explains what makes Ukrainian soil so valuable and why it will become even more geopolitically significant.