A History of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology FESPP Since its Foundation in 1978 - including notes on events preceding the foundation and following re-naming as the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) in 2002

Author: (President of FESPP Hartmut Lichtenthaler (President of FESPP  

Publisher: Urban & Fischer

ISSN: 0176-1617

Source: Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol.161, Iss.6, 2004-06, pp. : 635-639

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Abstract

After several years of close contacts and extensive discussion between various plant physiologists of different european countries, the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology (FESPP) was established in 1978 in Edinburgh. The aim of the FESPP was and remains to promote up-to-date plant physiology research in all European countries and to stimulate scientific cooperation and the exchange of scientists between the different member societies by organizing congresses and workshops as well as editing four (recently five) Federation-affiliated journals. The short History of FESPP presented here covers the preparatory years of the 1970 s that led to its actual foundation in 1978, and then its further development up to and following the Federation's reconstitution in 2002 as the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB).