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TALK: Genetic Insights into Plant Diversity

@ Great North Museum – Hancock

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Telling species apart can be difficult. Some species look similar but aren’t, and sometimes closely related individuals can look different. Furthermore some plant groups and some areas of the planet have simply had inadequate attention to characterise the diversity they contain.

Using examples from the UK and elsewhere, Professor Hollingsworth will summarise how DNA data is helping tell plant species apart. He will also give an overview of the International Barcode of Life project: a large-scale international initiative building a DNA reference library of life on earth.

Pete Hollingsworth is Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Although advertised this talk was postponed last year because of illness.

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