At this year’s botanical meeting, hosted by the German Botanical Society (www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de) at the University of Bonn, our chairman Dr. Martin Gruhlke gave a lecture on “Thioallylation as the basis for the physiological effect of allicin in garlic” and was session chair in the session “Plants and Human Health” together with Prof. Stanislav Kopriva. Besides many fascinating presentations, there was a lot of interesting exchange in the field of plant sciences, which are a central element for GENAWIF.