Molecular Evolution of Plants and Fungi

Research

Research of the section "Molecular Evolution of Plants" is focused on microevolutionary processes that provide and enable population and lineage diversification with a specific interest in interspecific hybridization and polyploidisation, mechanisms representing particularly important means of speciation in plants.

Team

Publications

Botany and Molecular Evolution

No other Senckenbergian discipline dates back so directly to Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707-1772) like botany. His original foundation, the “Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung” comprised a hospital, an anatomical theatre, the Senckenbergian library and a botanical garden, where a “Stiftsbotanikus” was appointed as botanist and head gardener.

Biodiversity Mapping

Since 1985, the Senckenberg Research Institute's Division of Botany and Molecular Evolution Research has been mapping biotope types throughout the entire city area – excluding some larger industrial facilities – on behalf of the city council of Frankfurt/Main.

Cryptogams

The cryptogamic section curates the collections of algae, bryophytes, fungi, lichens and ferns of the Herbarium Senckenbergianum (FR).

Grunelius-Möllgaard Laboratory for Molecular Evolution

The Grunelius-Möllgaard-Laboratory is run by the Division of Botany and Molecular Evolution and is open to all scientists at Senckenberg Research Institute.

Phanerogams I + II

The two sections work closely together and curate the higher plant collections (seed plants) of the Herbarium Senckenbergianum Frankfurt/M. (FR).