Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany at the University of Vienna held meeting on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Johann Greilhuber. The symposium entitled “Plants and the evolution of their genomes” was taking place on 5th November 2010 in Faculty Center Biodiversity (formerly Institute of Botany) of the University of Vienna. Already invited speakers included Michael Bennett, Ilia Leitch, Jaroslav Doležel, and Jan Suda, and the meeting also included a special response from Johann Greilhuber. Speakers was talking about genome size, chromosomes, polyploidy, and heterochromatin, providing both historical overview and insight into future research.
