Plant lineage points to different evolutionary playbook for temperate species
An ancient, cosmopolitan lineage of plants is shaking up scientists’ understanding of how quickly species evolve in temperate ecosystems and…Read More
Florida Museum students awarded NSF graduate fellowships
Three Florida Museum of Natural History doctoral students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a competitive funding…Read More
Remembering botanist Mark Whitten
The Florida Museum is saddened to announce the sudden death of botanist Mark Whitten. Whitten was well known for his…Read More
Plants’ drought alert system has unlikely evolutionary origin: underwater algae
Plants’ water-to-land leap marks one of the most important milestones in the evolution of life on Earth. But how plants…Read More
Scientists: ‘Time is ripe’ to use big data for planet-sized plant questions
A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to…Read More
Pamela Soltis joins National Academies committee on future of biological collections
University of Florida plant biologist Pamela Soltis has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee…Read More
Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes
Florida Museum of Natural History plant biologist Pam Soltis is part of a 24-member team that aims to sequence the…Read More
Plant biologist Pam Soltis receives SURA’s Distinguished Scientist Award
University of Florida plant biologist Pam Soltis will receive the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scientist Award, given annually…Read More
Evolution of China’s flowering plants shows East-West divide between lineages
An international team of scientists has mapped the evolutionary relationships between China’s 30,000 flowering plant species, uncovering a distinct regional…Read More
Far from family: Red mangroves on Cape Canaveral related to Gulf species
Richard Hodel, a biology doctoral student in the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics, explains how a recent Nature Scientific…Read More