Fil: Arias, Salvador. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; MéxicoFil: Berendsohn, Walter G.. Freie Universität Berlin; AlemaniaFil: Borsch, Thomas. Freie Universität Berlin; AlemaniaFil: Flores Olvera, Hilda. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; MéxicoFil: Ochoterena, Helga. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; MéxicoFil: von Mering, Sabine. Freie Universität Berlin; AlemaniaFil: Zuloaga, Fernando Omar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion; Argentin

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Plant Systematics World427Version of RecordTAXON 65 (2) • April 2016: 425–429CARYOPHYLLALES 2015 IN BERLIN AND THE GLOBAL CARYOPHYLLALES INITIATIVEThe Caryophyllales 2015 conference was held at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, 13–18 September 2015. The conference aimed at fomenting and expanding the international Caryophyllales network, bringing together researchers from all over the world and initiating new collaborations. More than 80 colleagues from 18 countries participated in the conference. During the first three days current research was presented in talks in eleven sessions rang-ing from phylogeny, adaptive evolution, morphology, classifications, to floristic diversity and conservation (see http://caryophyllales.org/caryophyllales2015 for details). The following two days were dedi-cated to workshops introducing biodiversity informatics tools (the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, the JACQ herbarium management system and Xper2 for creating botanical descriptions and identifica-tion keys) and working group meetings discussing ongoing work in selected plant groups (Sileneae Network, Cactaceae, Nyctaginaceae).In the past decades, scientific meetings focussing on Caryophyl-lales were organised at irregular intervals. During the XIIth Inter-national Botanical Congress in Leningrad in 1975 the symposium “Evolution of centrospermous families” was held. A new circum-scription of the order was discussed and broadly agreed upon (Mabry & Behnke, 1976). In July 1992, some 30 specialists from different fields (plant morphology to organic chemistry) gathered in Heidel-berg, Germany, for a symposium—organized by H.-D. Behnke and C. Mabry—on the ”Evolution and systematics of the Caryophyllales” (Behnke & Mabry, 1994). Almost 20 years later, in September 2012, the symposium “Caryophyllales – New insights into the phylogeny, systematics and morphological evolution of the order” was organized by A. Sukhorukov and colleagues at the Lomonosov State University Moscow, Russia.The recent conference in Berlin marked the starting point for a series of more regular Caryophyllales meetings. Colleagues from the Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) offered to host the next Caryophyllales conference in 2018.The Caryophyllales Network. — This international network of specialists was initiated in 2011 as an institutional partnership con-sisting of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (includ-ing herbarium B), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s Instituto de Biología (including herbarium MEXU) and the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion in Argentina (including herbarium SI). All three institutions are committed to contribute their existing expertise in Caryophyllales research into a larger initiative (see Borsch & al., 2015, for more details).Caryophyllales are a research focus at the BGBM and the insti-tutional commitment includes a position for scientific coordination. The biodiversity informatics side of the activities will be supported by the BGBM team handling the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy.The network plays a key role in the research activities within the initiative for a “Global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales” (Borsch & al., 2015). Benefits of a networked and informatics-supported approach towards building a modern monographic synthesis are obvious. Baseline information on species will be built up and open access in a single resource pro-vided for easiness and efficiency. Access to character data (sequences, morphology, etc.) linked to specimens (requirement) and names will facilitate research. Tools are provided for the publication of regional or global treatments to support the interface of regional Flora writing and global taxonomic synthesis. In this way, the initiative will con-tribute to saving work time, and to improving quality and consistence. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/652.60Participants of the international Caryophyllales 2015 conference in Berlin. Photograph by Wolf-Henning Kusber.Plant Systematics World428 Version of RecordTAXON 65 (2) • April 2016: 425–429A permanent repository for data of individual researchers is pro-vided, so that data become sustainable, discoverable, and visible. This approach also allows the identification of knowledge gaps, which will allow the oriented formation of human resources at different scholarly levels. Last but not least the Network provides an umbrella for individual, bottom-up and content-driven project applications and will improve conditions to show relevance of projects and enhance visibility of researchers and publications.Caryophyllales represent around 6% of global flowering plant diversity. The Caryophyllales Network received a mandate to organ-ise the respective contribution to the “World Flora Online” initiative (WFO, http://worldfloraonline.org/) in the context of the Global Strat-egy for Plant Conservation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. We posit that it is essential to promote taxonomic research to pursue this very ambitious aim and reach a result that is meaningful in the context of conservation.Generic checklist of Caryophyllales. — As a first result of col-laborative efforts of the network, a taxonomic backbone at the family and genus levels was published just in time for the Caryophyllales 2015 conference. It reflects the current state of knowledge and accepts 39 families and 749 genera for the order (Hernández-Ledesma & al., 2015; also available online at http://caryophyllales.org). The checklist includes all currently accepted genus names in Caryophyllales, as well as nomenclatural references, type names and synonymy. Addition-ally, notes indicate how extensively the respective genera have been studied in a phylogenetic context. This synopsis represents a first step towards the aim of creating a global synthesis of the species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales integrating the work of numerous specialists around the world.Outlook. — We intend to gradually expand the generic backbone to cover the species-level and eventually full species (and infraspe-cific) information. To that end, we will incorporate expert-evaluated species-level catalogues. An editorial workflow has to be developed that allows maximum participation, and further standards have to be set with regard to the dynamic development of the published infor-mation. We will work on selected genera/clades where teams exist to provide basic data (character data linked to specimens, trees and taxo-nomic concepts) and make the results available to encourage further research. Minimum requirements for character data such as genomic markers will be developed in order to foster comparability (positive experiences by Silene researchers). In addition, during Caryophyl-lales 2015 it was decided to set up a “who is who in Caryophyllales” as well as a bibliography for the order.Currently, the Caryophyllales network constitutes more than 100 individual scientists. We aim to expand the network to include further institutions with Caryophyllales on their research agenda. Individuals or institutions wishing to participate in and contribute to the network are invited to contact us.AcknowledgementsThe Caryophyllales network thanks the German Research Foun-dation (DFG) and the Center for International Cooperation (CIC) at the Freie Universität Berlin for their support of Caryophyllales 2015.Literature citedBehnke, H.-D. & Mabry, T. J. (eds.) 1994. Caryophyllales: Evolution and systematics. Springer: Berlin.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78220-6Borsch, Th., Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W.G., Flores-Olvera, H., Ochoterena, H., Zuloaga, F.O., Mering, S. von & Kilian, N. 2015. An integrative and dynamic approach for mono-graphing species-rich plant groups – Building the global synthesis of the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Perspect. Pl. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 17: 284–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2015.05.003Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W.G., Borsch, Th., Mering, S. von, Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler, R., Ocampo, G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R.K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B.O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45: 281–383. http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wi.45.45301Mabry, T.J. & Behnke, H.-D. (eds.) 1976. Evolution of centrospermous families: A symposium held in July 1975 during the XIIth Interna-tional Botanical Congress, Leningrad. Pl. Syst. Evol. 126: 1–106.Salvador Arias,1 Walter G. Berendsohn,2,3 Thomas Borsch,2,3 Hilda Flores-Olvera,4 Helga Ochoterena,4 Sabine von Mering2 & Fernando O. Zuloaga51 Jardín Botánico, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Apartado Postal 70-614, C.P. 04510 México, D.F., México2 Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise Str. 6–8, 14195 Berlin, Germany3 Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Altensteinstr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany4 Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Apartado Postal 70-233, C.P. 04510 México, D.F., México5 Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, Casilla de Correo 22, San Isidro, 1642, ArgentinaAddress for correspondence: caryophyllales@bgbm.org

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