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Alfonso Susanna is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, Susanna's work concentrates on several subfields, including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The main topics in Susanna's research encompass Sesquiterpenes and Asteraceae Studies, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies, Botanical Research and Chemistry, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

Susanna has contributed to numerous academic publications, with frequent papers appearing in these journals and venues:

  • Taxon
  • Plants
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Phytotaxa
  • Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Collaborations with other researchers form a significant part of Susanna's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Núria Garcia-Jacas
  • Juan Antonio Calleja
  • Mercè Galbany-Casals
  • Cristina Roquet
  • Roser Vilatersana

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfonso Susanna include:

  • The classification of the Compositae: A tribute to Vicki Ann Funk (1947-2019), 2020, Taxon
  • Climate Stability Index maps, a global high resolution cartography of climate stability from Pliocene to 2100, 2022, Scientific Data
  • A prickly puzzle: Generic delimitations in the Carduus-Cirsium group (Compositae: Cardueae: Carduinae), 2020, Taxon
  • Generic boundaries in subtribe Saussureinae (Compositae: Cardueae): Insights from Hyb-Seq data, 2020, Taxon
  • Repeatedly Northwards and Upwards: Southern African Grasslands Fuel the Colonization of the African Sky Islands in Helichrysum (Compositae), 2023, Plants

Best Publications

  • Everywhere but Antarctica: using a supertree to understand the diversity and distribution of the Compositae.

    V. A. Funk;R.J. Bayer;S. Keeley;R. Chan

  • Generic Delimitation and Phylogeny of the Subtribe Centaureinae (Asteraceae): A Combined Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA Analysis

    Núria Garcia-Jacas;Alfonso Susanna;Teresa Garnatje;Roser Vilatersana

  • Centaurea Revisited: A Molecular Survey of the Jacea Group

    N. Garcia-Jacas;T. Uysal;K. Romashchenko;V. N. Suárez-Santiago

  • Phylogenetic relationships in tribe Cardueae (Asteraceae) based on ITS sequences

    Alfonso Susanna;Nuria Garcia Jacas;Douglas E. Soltis;Pamela S. Soltis

  • The Cardueae (Compositae) revisited: Insights from its, trnl-trnf, and matk nuclear and chloroplast dna analysis

    Alfonso Susanna;Núria Garcia-Jacas;Oriane Hidalgo;Roser Vilatersana

  • The natural delimitation ofCentaurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae): ITS sequence analysis of theCentaurea jacea group

    N. Garcia-Jacas;A. Susanna;V. Mozaffarian;R. Ilarslan

  • Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

    Laia Barres;Isabel Sanmartín;Cajsa Lisa Anderson;Cajsa Lisa Anderson;Alfonso Susanna

  • Island-like radiation of Saussurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae) triggered by uplifts of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

    Yu-Jin Wang;Yu-Jin Wang;Alfonso Susanna;Eckhard Von Raab-Straube;Richard Milne

  • Phylogeny in Artemisia (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) inferred from nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS) sequences

    Montserrat Torrell;Núria Garcia‐Jacas;Alfonso Susanna;Joan Vallès

  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of floral characters of Artemisia and allies (Anthemideae, Asteraceae): evidence from nrDNA ETS and ITS sequences

    María Sanz;Roser Vilatersana;Oriane Hidalgo;Núria Garcia-Jacas

  • Tribal and Subtribal Delimitation and Phylogeny of the Cardueae (Asteraceae): A Combined Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA Analysis

    Núria Garcia-Jacas;Teresa Garnatje;Alfonso Susanna;Roser Vilatersana

  • The Genus Artemisia and its Allies: Phylogeny of the Subtribe Artemisiinae (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) Based on Nucleotide Sequences of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS)

    J. Vallès;M. Torrell;T. Garnatje;N. Garcia-Jacas

  • Natural Delineation, Molecular Phylogeny and Floral Evolution in Campanula

    Cristina Roquet;Cristina Roquet;Llorenç Sáez;Juan José Aldasoro;Alfonso Susanna

  • Systematics and evolution of the needle grasses (Poaceae: Pooideae: Stipeae) based on analysis of multiple chloroplast loci, ITS, and lemma micromorphology

    Konstantin Romaschenko;Konstantin Romaschenko;Paul M. Peterson;Robert J. Soreng;Nuria Garcia-Jacas

  • Reconstructing the history of Campanulaceae with a Bayesian approach to molecular dating and dispersal-vicariance analyses.

    Cristina Roquet;Isabel Sanmartín;Núria Garcia-Jacas;Llorenç Sáez

  • Generic delimitation and phylogeny of the Carduncellus-Carthamus complex (Asteraceae) based on ITS sequences

    R. Vilatersana;A. Susanna;N. Garcia-Jacas;T. Garnatje

  • Phylogeny and evolution of the Arctium-Cousinia complex (Compositae, Cardueae-Carduinae)

    Sara López-Vinyallonga;Iraj Mehregan;Núria Garcia-Jacas;Olga Tscherneva

  • Taxonomic problems in Carthamus (Asteraceae): RAPD markers and sectional classification

    Roser Vilatersana;Teresa Garnatje;Alfonso Susanna;Núria Garcia‐Jacas

  • Phylogenetic relationships in Helichrysum (Compositae: Gnaphalieae) and related genera: Incongruence between nuclear and plastid phylogenies, biogeographic and morphological patterns, and implications for generic delimitation

    Mercè Galbany-Casals;Matthew Unwin;Núria Garcia-Jacas;Rob D. Smissen

  • Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae-Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications.

    Oriane Hidalgo;Núria Garcia-Jacas;Teresa Garnatje;Alfonso Susanna

  • Evolution and biogeography of Centaurea section Acrocentron inferred from nuclear and plastid DNA sequence analyses

    Mònica Font;Núria Garcia-Jacas;Roser Vilatersana;Cristina Roquet

Frequent Co-Authors

Petar D. Marin
Petar D. Marin University of Belgrade
Oriane Hidalgo
Oriane Hidalgo Royal Botanic Gardens
Paul M. Peterson
Paul M. Peterson Smithsonian Institution
Vicki A. Funk
Vicki A. Funk National Museum of Natural History
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Jianquan Liu
Jianquan Liu Lanzhou University
Pamela S. Soltis
Pamela S. Soltis University of Florida
Robert J. Soreng
Robert J. Soreng Smithsonian Institution
Randall J. Bayer
Randall J. Bayer University of Memphis
Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev
Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev University of Paris-Saclay

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