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The 14th IMPR will be held July 14-19, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain
The First Circular is now available!
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Phytolith BD winner of Unraveling Comics IV
The BD titled Lara Jones and the mystery of the stone plants, by María Victoria García Martínez and José María Pérez Cordón, has been awarded the second prize.
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New Feature – IPS Envoys!
The IPS is delighted to introduce IPS Envoy posts, a new feature on the website designed to increase communication among phytolith researchers. Because the phytolith research community is so large and global, it is difficult to keep up with research conducted by laboratories outside one’s own region.
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Watch a video of the workshop on "Unravelling the Complex Relationship between Plant Physiology, Phytoliths, and the Environment"
Friday, June 7th, 2024 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Room 20.287).
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Fourth IPS Envoy Posts!
Check out the fourth IPS envoy posts from China and Brazil: Dr. Houyuan Lu describes phytolith research conducted by his laboratory in Beijing, China; and Carolina Benincá describes Leading Phytolith Research Hubs in South America.
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Announcing the Launch of PHYTO-CHAT-L!
We strongly encourage all phytolith researchers (IPS membership is not required) to join PHYTO-CHAT_L.
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The new code for phytolith nomenclature, version 2.0 IS NOW published !
The paper with its supplementary material can be downloaded for free on the Annals of Botany website.
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Looking for the paper Mineralization of fossil wood by Buurman published in Scripta Geologica in 1972?
Join us and get access to pdfs of articles in the phytolith bibliography!