Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society
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Founded 1947 (1947)
Location
Origins Founded as
Societas Physiologia Plantarum Scandinavica
Key people
 President: Jaakko Kangasjärvi
Vice-President: Tom Hamborg Nielsen
Treasurer: Kurt Fagerstedt
Secretary General: Anna Kärkönen
Secretary: Niina Idänheimo
Website www.spps.fi

The Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) is a professional society working to promote all aspects of experimental plant biology, from molecular cell biology and biochemistry to ecophysiology. SPPS is a forum for contact and communication among plant biologist.

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SPPS is an international society based in the Scandinavian countries and headed by an elected board with representatives from Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. Presently the SPPS office is placed in Helsinki.

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SPPS is affiliated to the Federation of European Societies for Plant Biology (FESPB) [1] and the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO). [2] From 2008 to 2010, the former president of SPPS, Jan K. Schjørring, also served as president for FESPB. [3]

Publications

SPPS publishes a monthly peer-reviewed journal:

Physiologia Plantarum has an impact factor of 2.708 and ranks #28 among the 172 most cited international plant science journals. The journal is published on behalf of SPPS by Wiley-Blackwell.

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The society also publishes the quarterly SPPS Newsletter, [5] which is distributed to all SPPS members.

Conferences

SPPS organises two biannual meetings: the SPPS Congress and the SPPS PhD Student Conference. The most recent meetings are listed below.

Since SPPS was holding presidency of FESPB from 2008 to 2010, the planned SPPS Congresses in 2007 and 2009 were substituted for the 2008 FESPB Congress that SPPS was obliged to host and arrange.

Grants

SPPS provides financial support for a range of meetings and other initiatives. The Society supports international symposia and workshops in plant physiology and related topics, organised by SPPS members in the Nordic countries. Travel grants can be granted to students and PhD students participating in conferences arranged by SPPS or others, and to Scandinavian scientists visiting another Scandinavian laboratory.

Other activities

SPPS assists Scandinavian universities in arranging summer schools [13] and participates in the international initiative Global Plant Council. [14]

History

SPPS shares its history with Physiologia Plantarum. During the end of the 1940s Nordic plant physiologists faced difficulties in getting their work published in international journals. Professor M. G. Stålfelt from Stockholms Högskola realized that the plant science community in Scandinavia needed their own organization and journal, so he arranged a meeting in Copenhagen 27–28 October 1947 with representatives from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

It was decided to establish the organization Societas Physiologia Plantarum Scandinavica and that it should arrange regular scientific conferences and publish the journal Physiologia Plantarum from 1948. Professor Hans G. Burström from Lund was appointed editor-in-chief of the journal, a position that he administered for 22 years.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.fespb.org Archived 21 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Associates | EPSO. Epsoweb.org (2010-10-06). Retrieved on 2010-12-07.
  3. ↑ Telefonbog på LIFEs ansatte – Det Biovidenskabelige Fakultet – Københavns Universitet. Life.ku.dk. Retrieved on 2010-12-07.
  4. ↑ Physiologia Plantarum
  5. ↑ SPPS Newsletter
  6. ↑ 8th SPPS PhD Student Conference
  7. ↑ 6th SPPS PhD Student Conference
  8. ↑ XVI FESPB Congress
  9. ↑ 5th SPPS PhD Student Conference
  10. ↑ 4th SPPS PhD Student Conference
  11. ↑ XXII SPPS Congress
  12. ↑ 3rd SPPS PhD Student Conference
  13. ↑ SPPS-FOBI Summer School in Plant Biology – LPhD100 (2010/2011) – Faculty of Life Sciences. Phdcourses.life.ku.dk:80 (2010-08-31). Retrieved on 2010-12-07.
  14. ↑ Global Plant Council: Plant Research to Save the Planet. Bio4bio.dk (2009-10-06). Retrieved on 2010-12-07.

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