V International Leguminosae Conference
Buenos Aires - Argentina, August 2010

The Fifth International Legume Conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 8-14, 2010.

The conference, coming almost ten years after the 4th International Legume Conference in Canberra, Australia will offer an excellent forum for Legume Specialists to disseminate advances in their work made during the last decade.

Furthermore, the meeting will provide an opportunity to build new collaborations and strengthen and renew existing collaborations.

This International Meeting is to be held in honour of the memory to Prof. Arturo Burkart (1906-1975), a recognized authority in Legume research and the former Director of The Darwinion Institute of Botany (1936-1975).

The Conference will have simultaneous translations: English-Spanish, Spanish-English, - English-Portuguese, Portuguese-English.

Topics will include

• Phylogeny, and the new Legume classification 
• Phytogeography
• Developmental and Structural studies
• Wood Anatomy
• Reproductive Biology
• Cytology
• Genetic
• Phytochemistry
• Palynology
• Anatomy
• Paleobotany
• Pollination
• Plant - Animal - Microbe Interactions
• Functional Evolution in Root Nodules
• Species-Populations - Hybrids - Polyploidy
• Seed and Seedling Biology
• Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo)
• Legumes as model organisms
• Molecular Ecology and Evolution
• Plant-Soil Interactions
• Systematics - Taxonomy
• Floras
• Economic Botany
• Conservation
• Breeding Systems
• Genetics Resources

Papers presented at the conference will be published in: Advances Legumes Systematics 12 and 13.

Herbarium visits can be arranged during the conference and following the meeting scientific field trips to the North East, North West and South of Argentina will be organised.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ARGENTINA AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PARTICIPATION!