Keeping you informed about the Society
 
SPPS Newsletter is the Society's newsletter that appears four times a year. It is sent by e-mail to all members and others interested in plant biology and can also be read on the web.

 
SPPS Newsletter is sent by e-mail to all members. Graphic by Gorm Palmgren.
SPPS Newsletter keeps you informed about news and announce- ments from the Society. It also updates you about upcoming meetings of interest and if you were not able to attend a particular meeting, you might be able to read a proceedings from it in the Newsletter.

In addition, SPPS Newsletter has a number of regular sections that keep you updated in specific areas:
  • Scandinavian research institute:
    A thorough look inside one of Scandinavia's leading fascilities in plant biology research
  • Special Feature:
    Background information about a political or societal topic with relevance to research
  • Our opinion:
    A member of the Council answers 5 questions about the topic in Special feature
  • News from Physiologia Plantarum:
    A featured article from the Society'ss own journal; the original article can be accessed for free
  • News in brief from other journals:
    Highlighting top stories in plant biology from Nature, Science, PNAS and other leading journals
 
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January 2012
o 7th SPPS PhD Student Conference already this year
o Report from the Global Plant Council (GPC) meeting in China
o Time to renew your SPPS membership
o Fascination of Plants Day goes global
o Evaluation of Finnish plant science
o ShortNews from the plant science field
o Farming goes vertical
o Scandinavian research institute:
Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Sweden

 
September 2011
o Detailed report from the SPPS Congress
o SPPS General Assembly
o Presenting the new SPPS Council
o EPSO presents: Fascination of Plants Day
o Short report from the SPPS Congress in Stavanger
o Organic food: Is it really good for you?
o Scandinavian research institute:
Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, NTNU, Norway

 
June 2011
o 24 nations gather in Stavanger for the SPPS Congress
o Join the SPPS General Assembly
o Cisgenesis - a new alternative to GMOs?
o Scandinavian research institute:
Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, Denmark

 
March 2011
o Register NOW for the SPPS Congress in Stavanger, Norway
o Call for contributions to the Education Session at the SPPS Congress
o Join the SPPS General Assembly
o Plant science in education
o Scandinavian research institute:
Plant Biotechnology, University of Eastern Finland

 
September 2010
o Report from the 6th SPPS PhD Student Conference
o Physiologia Plantarum's impact factor is on the rise
o Time to renew your SPPS membership
o The Global Plant Council is taking legal and formal shape
o Update on SPPS Congress in Stavanger 2011
o SPPS Education Committee established
o New membership fee payment system in the works
o Plant science in Estonia
o Scandinavian research institute:
Plant science institutes in Estonia

 
June 2010
o SPPS Education Committee - call for volunteers
o Announcing the next SPPS Congress in Stavanger, Norway
o Registration closed for the 6th SPPS PhD Student Conference
o EPSO Conference first time in Scandinavia
o Can you help us remember our history?
o History of the tree
o Scandinavian research institute:
Department of Biology, University of Tromsø

 
March 2010
o Registration is now open for the 6th SPPS PhD Student Conference
o Help us writing the history of SPPS
o Benefit from the new Open Positions and Posted Meetings sections
o Protecting new plant varieties: Patents vs. Breeders' rights
o Scandinavian research institute:
Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden

o Reprinted from the last edition of SPPS Newsletter: The Global Plant Council - Research to save the planet
 
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