ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКО ДРУШТВО ЗА ФИЗИОЛОГИЈУ БИЉАКА ИСТОРИЈАТ И АКТИВНОСТ (1969–2003)
YUGOSLAV SOCIETY FOR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY: HISTORY AND ACTIVITY (1969–2003)

Summary/Abstract: To preserve its history, the authors have compiled material on the JDFB/DFBS, its founding, and its development from 1969 to 2024. Tracing the development of Plant Physiology as a scientific discipline, we can observe that it began to emerge independently from Botany and Plant Nutrition in this region around the 1960s. The first teaching material, Physiology of Plants, was written by Franja Pletel for students of the Higher Pedagogical School (Biology Department) in Novi Sad during the 1956/57 academic year. Since then, numerous textbooks on Plant Physiology have been published by various authors. The first meeting of plant physiologists was held on May 17–18, 1966, in Novi Sad. It focused on research and pedagogical issues in the field of Plant Physiology. This meeting, hosted by the Faculty of Agriculture, was the first gathering of colleagues and the first exchange of experiences related to Plant Physiology within Yugoslavia at that time. At this meeting, a consensus was reached to establish the Yugoslav Society for Plant Physiology within the Union of Biological Societies of Yugoslavia, which was officially founded at the 3rd Congress of Yugoslav Biologists held in Ljubljana from June 25 to 28, 1969. The founding members of the Society included: the Society for Plant Physiology of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croatian Society for Plant Physiology, the Section of Plant Physiologists of the Biological Society of Macedonia, the Society for Plant Physiology of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia at the University “Edvard Kardelj,” the Society for Plant Physiology of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, and the Society for Plant Physiology of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Montenegro never had its own society or official members in the organization. From its founding until 1990, the Society’s leadership rotated between republics, as the headquarters shifted accordingly. After the dissolution of the Yugoslav Society for Plant Physiology, the organization continued its work under the name The Serbian Plant Physiology Society (Društvo za fiziologiju biljaka Srbije) from 2003 onward.

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