Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
1659 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1963
dsoltis@ufl.edu
Preferred name: Doug
Collections & Programs
Soltis Lab: Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Interests
Plant biology, plant phylogeny, genome doubling, floral evolution, angiosperm diversification, phylogeography
Publications
Research News
Some plants can make their own fertilizer with this one weird trick. Scientists say they learned it more than once.
Key points Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Farmers compensate by adding…
UF study traces complex history of the strawberry
If you eat fruits or vegetables, how often do you think about their history? Former University of Florida post-doctoral researcher…
A plant you’ve never heard of can do what scientists once thought impossible
About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring molecules — the same kind that astronomers have found in…
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