Plant Systematics and Evolution - Meet the Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Karol Marhold
Department of Vascular Plants Taxonomy, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Expertise: Plant systematics, molecular phylogenetics, morphometrics, karyology, taxonomy and nomenclature.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7658-0844 (this opens in a new tab)
Managing Editors
Barbora Šingliarová & Katarína Skokanová
Department of Vascular Plants Taxonomy, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Associate Editors
Z. Wilhelm de Beer
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Expertise: Taxonomy, phylogenetics, population genetics, mating and diagnostics of fungal plant and human pathogens, fungus-insect symbioses and fungal ecology. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9758-8987 (this opens in a new tab)
Frank R. Blattner
Research Group of Experimental Taxonomy, Department of Genebank, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
Expertise: Taxonomy, phylogeography, population genetics and evolutionary biology of crops and their wild relatives. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7731-7741 (this opens in a new tab)
Jose M. Bonifacino
Botany Laboratory at Department of Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Montevideo, Uruguay
Expertise: Systematics and taxonomy of the South American members of the family Compositae. http://www.fagro.edu.uy/bioveg/mauricio-bonifacino.html (this opens in a new tab)
Julien Boutte
Enterprise A2Bio2, Rennes, FranceV.L.G. BritoUniversidade Federal de Uberlandia, São Paulo, Brazil
Ferhat Celep
Department of Biology, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey
Expertise: Plant systematics, morphology, anatomy, micro-morphology, molecular phylogeny pollination and reproductive biology. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ferhat_Celep (this opens in a new tab)
Walter Durka
Department Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Halle, Germany
Expertise: Molecular ecology of plants and animals, conservation genetics, landscape genetics, invasion genetics of neophytic species, species and genetic diversity. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6611-2246 (this opens in a new tab)
Mario Fernández-Mazuecos
Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Expertise: Phylogeny, biogeography and phylogeography of vascular plants, with a focus on the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions; flower evolution and its relationship with insect pollinators. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Fernandez-Mazuecos (this opens in a new tab)
Jörg Fuchs
Chromosome Structure and Function Laboratory, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
Expertise: Karyotype and genome size evolution, chromosomal structure, nuclear architecture, molecular cytogenetics, flow cytometry, epigenetics. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4171-5371 (this opens in a new tab)
Terry Hedderson
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Expertise: Bryophyte Taxonomy and Systematics, Molecular Systematics,Phylogenetics and Phylogeographyhttp://www.biologicalsciences.uct.ac.za/bio/staff/academic/hedderson (this opens in a new tab)
Michael Hesse
Department of Structural and Functional Botany, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Expertise: Palynology, sexual reproduction, anther tapetum, pollen and spore development. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Hesse (this opens in a new tab)
Julius Jeiter
Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Expertise: Floral evolution, floral development, morphology and anatomy, nectary development, morphology and evolution, pollination biology, 3D-imaging. https://www.nees.uni-bonn.de/staff/pages/%20Julius%20Jeiter%2C%20M.Sc.%20 (this opens in a new tab)
Roland Kirschner
Fungal Resources Laboratory, School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University
Expertise: Fungal and Microbial Diversity, Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology, Environmental Microbiology and Mycology, Phytopathology, Phylogenetic Analysis https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roland_Kirschner (this opens in a new tab)
Marcus A. Koch
Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg (COS Heidelberg)
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Miroslav Kolařík
Laboratory of fungal genetics and metabolism, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
Expertise: Ecology, diversity, taxonomy (classical and molecular approaches) and secondary metabolites of insect associated, clinical, soil and wood endophytic fungi. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4016-0335 (this opens in a new tab)
Ales Kovarik
Department of Molecular Epigenetics, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Expertise: Evolution of polyploid genomes, structure and expression of ribosomal RNA genes, organisation of satellite DNA repeats. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2896-0698 (this opens in a new tab)
Hiroshi Kudoh
Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Expertise: Molecular ecology, epigenetics, adaptation and diversification of plants. http://www.ecology.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kudoh/en/index.html (this opens in a new tab)
Martin A. Lysak
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Yvonne Němcová
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Expertise: Phycology, Phylogenetics, Freshwater and Phytoplankton Ecology, Algal Community Structure and Diversity, Geometric Morphometrics https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yvonne_Nemcova (this opens in a new tab)
Christoph Oberprieler
Evolutionary and Systematic Botany Group, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Expertise: Plant systematics, evolution of polyploid complexes, hybridization, morphology, micromorphology, phytochemistry, biogeography, phylogeography, phyloecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. http://www.uni-regensburg.de/biologie-vorklinische-medizin/evolution-systematik-pflanzen/prof-dr-christoph-oberprieler/index.html (this opens in a new tab)
Christian Parisod
Department of Biology - University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Expertise: Alpine botany, phylogeography, evolutionary ecology, genome evolution, polyploidy, hybridization, landscape genetics, local adaptation and population genetics. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8798-0897 (this opens in a new tab)
Stephen W. Peterson
Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, United States
Expertise: Fungal systematics and taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics, taxonomy and phylogeny of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9090-6698 (this opens in a new tab)
Ying-Xiong Qiu
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Expertise: Molecular ecology and phylogeny, conservation biology of endangered plants, biogeography of East Asian plants, landscape genomics (RAD-seq, transcriptomics, metabolomics). https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/qyxhero (this opens in a new tab)
Michal Ronikier
Molecular Biogeography Group, Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
Expertise: Alpine and arctic plant species, phylogeography, molecular systematics and conservation genetics. http://molecular-biogeography.botany.pl/2016-10-06-21-53-46/people/28-dr-michal-ronikier (this opens in a new tab)
Louis P. Ronse De Craene
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Expertise: Macrosystematics of angiosperms, floral morphology, anatomy, development and evolution of flowers. http://www.rbge.org.uk/science/tropical-diversity/louis-ronse-de-craene (this opens in a new tab)
Alexander N. Sennikov
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland
Expertise: Ecology, evolutionary biology, plant taxonomy, plant geography, botanical nomenclature, mapping, databasing. https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/alexander-sennikov(40806298-6f74-49ac-ac3b-198eb933521f).html (this opens in a new tab)
Mike Thiv
Botany Department, Natural History Museum Stuttgart, Germany
Expertise: Evolution, phylogenetics, conservation and taxonomy of plants. http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/forschung/botany/thiv (this opens in a new tab)
Andreas Tribsch
Research group of Molecular Phylogenetics & Molecular Ecology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Expertise: Plant systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, floristics and taxonomy of mountain and arctic-alpine plants, conservation genetics, molecular ecology, species and genetic diversity. https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=40529 (this opens in a new tab)
Pablo Vargas
Plant Evolutionary Biology, Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Expertise: Systematics, evolution of angiosperms, phylogeography, evolution in islands, colonization of plants, conservation and evolutionary biology. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4502-0382 (this opens in a new tab)
Nora Walden
Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen The Netherlands
Experise: Systematics, phylogenetics and population genetics of higher plants, evolutionary genomics and metabarcoding https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nora_Walden (this opens in a new tab)
Livia Wanntorp
Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Expertise: Biogeography, molecular phylogenetics, flower morphology and development, pollination mechanisms and syndromes.
http://people.su.se/~lwann/ (this opens in a new tab)
Yunpeng Zhao
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Chine
Expertise: Phylogenetics, population genetics of Asian plants, biogeography of eastern Asian-North American disjunction. http://mypage.zju.edu.cn/en/ypzhao (this opens in a new tab)