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Barcoding Britain’s Liverworts – progress to date

…Kariyawasam (2014), molecular methods and bryophyte barcoding Dr Des Callaghan (2017), British species of the moss Weissia David Bell (2017), Databasing and digitizing herbarium specimens of Aneura   SYNTHESYS Access-funded…

Stable URIs for natural history collections – The Movie

…and Serge) to make a movie about the use of stable URI’s for herbarium specimens. Despite the material they had to work with (i.e. my voice over) they have done…

A sudden concentration of Bryologists

…Sibbald Trust. Dr Kristian Hassel, head of the TRH herbarium at the NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, who is looking at the leafy liverwort Scapania nimbosa.   Bryology dinner    …

Understanding the Caatinga, Brazil

…sources such as literature and herbarium records. Brazilian Caatinga In addition to this, and perhaps more importantly, he has been taking advantage of existing phylogenetic data to uncover evolutionary patterns…

Can’t see the begonias for the trees – hidden diversity in Kalimantan

…and LIPI (Herbarium Bogoriense and Kebun Raya Bogor) is highlighting. Our joint expedition to the limestone hills of the region in late 2016 yielded 7 Begonia species, one of which…

What’s the matter with Nardia?

…find morphological characters that we could use to distinguish them in the field and in the herbarium, we would gain a far clearer picture of their distributions and of their…

In memory of Private James Christopher Adam (1882-1918), and his brother Lt. Robert Moyes Adam (1885-1967)

…in plant identification and taxonomic work, presumably in the Garden’s herbarium and it seems that describing his position as ‘Helper’ underplays its significance; ‘Assistant’ might be the term used today….

Untangling asetate Weissia species in the UK

…sequences from a range of fresh collected and herbarium preserved Weissia plants. Des got DNA sequence data from a number of different DNA regions, including some of the “standard” plant…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: stockpiling Begonia DNA for protocol testing

herbarium specimens relates to how the plant was treated in the field. While Hannah has been extracting DNA from some of the wild New Guinean plants that she’ll be working…

A concept to modernise RBGE

…save it to your phone. Providing the following information: Family, Genus, species ‘Cultivar’ Photo of plant in all seasons, Herbarium photos General description, notable characteristics, propagation, how to grow, hardiness…

A Desperate Escape – George Forrest on the run in China, July 1905

…and determined. Forrest, who had been a herbarium clerk at RBGE, was, from April 1904, on his first plant hunting expedition to Yunnan province, southwest China on behalf of A.K….

The Strange Grotto

…mounted on cards, that functioned both as an educational toy and what I have termed an ‘herbarium portabile’. The work of Lady Charlotte Murray (1754-1808), eldest daughter of the third…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: bead cleaning degraded Begonia DNAs

…for three of the better-quality DNA extractions (from recently heat-dried herbarium material, RNAlater tissue samples, and silica gel-dried tissue samples), the amount of DNA lost during bead clean rises steeply…

Caledonian Hall

…but the East Gate Lodge is… The Herbarium Officially opened by HM The Queen in 1964, the Herbarium and Library was built to house the collection of three million preserved…

British Council workshop on Valuing Andean Biodiversity

…Forest Herbarium, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru, discussing her work on monitoring the montane and dry forests of the Peruvian Selva Central. Underpinning all benefits of Andean forests is…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: quality metrics for duplicate extractions

…DNA from the replicates. Herbarium specimen E00845133 for Begonia scottii living accession 20170076 We used plant tissue from two of the types of preservation we’d been testing – hairdryer-dried leaves,…

Generating a phylogeny of Polytrichum using hybrid baits

…generate read data from the family that can be used to design a better-targeted Polytrichaceae-specific bait set. Most of the taxa in the study will be sampled from herbarium specimens….

Polytrichum baits: Cutting mosses

…with high molecular weight DNA, IK31, and one more typical of herbarium material, IK53, with mostly degraded DNA), to devise the fragmentation protocol we would then apply across the rest…

Hybrid capture from degraded DNA: the mysterious case of the vanishing libraries

…think about DNA repair. In a previous study on hybrid capture of libraries constructed from herbarium material of the legume Inga (Hart et al. 2016), we hadn’t actually seen much…

Local network, social media and a new generic ginger record for Nepal

…which leaves no doubt of the identity. Although we do not yet have a proper voucher for the herbarium at Kathmandu, it is certain that we have a new generic…