SYNTHESYS+ Synthesis of systematic resources Tools and Training for Fern Conservation and Monitoring, El Salvador Role: Principal investigator Funding: DEFRA Information incentives for CBD implementation in private reserves in Argentina and Paraguay Role: Principal investigator Funding: NERC Role: Principal investigator Funding: European Union FP6-Food High Quality Solanaceous Crops for Consumers, Processors and Producers by Exploration of Natural Biodiversity Role: Principal investigator Funding: Royal Society Travel grant to attend Botany/Mycology2009 Role: Principal investigator Funding: World Collections Programme Role: Principal investigator Funding: NSF Role: Principal investigator Funding: Department for Business, Innovation & SkillsĪRTS:Taxonomy and phylogeny of Capsicum and Lycianthes (Solanaceae) Koeltz Scientific Books : Königsten.ĭigitising Colombian plant collections in the Natural History Museum McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, et al (2012) International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011. Knapp S (null) A revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae). Knapp S, Vorontsova MS, Prohens J (null) Wild Relatives of the Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): New Understanding of Species Names in a Complex Group. Särkinen T, Bohs L, Olmstead RG, Knapp S (2013) A phylogenetic framework for evolutionary study of the nightshades (Solanaceae): a dated 1000-tip tree. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, doi: 10.1007/s1072-z melongena L.): a review of taxonomy, characteristics and uses aimed at its enhancement for improved eggplant breeding. (subgenus Leptostemonum Bitter, Solanaceae), the neglected wild progenitor of eggplant (S. Ranil RHG, Prohens J, Aubriot X, Niran HML, Plazas M, et al. Systematic Botany Monographs, 99 : 1 - 432. Vorontsova MS, Knapp S (2016) A revision of the spiny solanums, Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) in Africa and Madagascar. Honorary Research Professor, University College London, Genes, Ecology and Environment, United Kingdom, 2008 - ongoing.Field Associate, Field Museum of Natural History, United States, 1997 - ongoing.PhD, Cornell University, United States, 1980 - 1986īA, Pomona College, United States, 1974 - 1978 On my past few field trips I have posted blogs from the field, you can look for new ones on the NHM website or on Solanaceae Source, our collaborative web platform for nightshade taxonomy (Qualifications My work depends upon seeing plants in their native habitats and I have been fortunate enough to have visited many countries and worked with many colleagues overseas. My current projects include: 1) A world-wide taxonomic monograph of the some 1500 species of Solanum and a similar global monographic treatment of Capsicum and Lycianthes, 2) Flora Mesoamericana, 3) Collaborative research in phylogenetics and genomic evolution of Solanaceae, 4) Research into the domestication of Solanaceae crops such as eggplants in China and "African supervegetables", 5) Conservation and biodiversity monitoring projects in I came to the Natural History Museum in 1992 to manage the international project Flora Mesoamericana - a synoptic inventory of the approximately 18,000 species of plants of southern Mexico and the isthmus of Central America. I have described more than 75 new species of plants, mostly in Solanum and from the New World tropics. My particular focus of research is the taxonomy of the nightshade family Solanaceae, focusing on the megadiverse genus Solanum, which contains potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants and is one of only a handful of flowering plant genera with more than 1000 species, and more recently the peppers ( Capsicum) and their poorly known close relatives in the genus Lycianthes. I am a specialist on the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and have spent much time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants.
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