By Liz Darling (Sears) and Jesse Sills
Hi everyone! Now that the vascular plants of Canada DNA barcoding project is all finished (Read about it here), the team here at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics has moved on to another group of plants: the Bryophytes. This term broadly encompasses all land plants that do not have any true vascular tissue, which includes the mosses, liverworts and hornworts. Continue reading “The Moss Bosses”
For the past two weeks, we have had a small team scanning and tissue sampling plants at the University of British Columbia Herbarium in the beautiful Beaty Museum in Vancouver, BC. As we discussed in an earlier post, BIO is coordinating a project involving researchers across Canada to DNA barcode all of Canada’s 5582 vascular plants for the International Barcode of Life Project. Continue reading “Barcoding Canada’s Plants at the UBC Herbarium – Beaty Museum”
We currently have two BIO staff – Connor and Maryam – at the National Herbarium of Canada (NHC) sampling specimens of Canadian vascular plants. As part of the International Barcode of Life Project, BIO is striving to DNA barcode every species of Canadian plant. Continue reading “Barcoding Canada’s Plants at the National Herbarium of Canada”
