Home / Resources and Writings / Weblog / October 2004
Sequencing the Genome of a Diatom
Category(-ies): Climate Change , Plant Discoveries
Beverley Green, professor emerita of UBC's Department of Botany speaks on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's nationally broadcast “The Science Show” about the importance of diatoms and the potential discoveries to be made from determining the genetic sequence of algae. “These diatoms gobble up more carbon dioxide than rain forests.”
Continue reading "Sequencing the Genome of a Diatom"
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:35 PM
Conserving the Gene Pool of Flowers
Category(-ies): Plant Conservation
The three-year-old Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center (OPGC), in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the few genebanks in the world to focus on preserving flower genes. Floral genetic diversity is being lost as breeders focus on particular traits and natural populations are threatened by development.
Continue reading "Conserving the Gene Pool of Flowers"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:14 PM
Royal Botanical Gardens Gets Reprieve
Category(-ies): Other Botanical Gardens
The financially troubled RBG in Hamilton has been granted $1.87 million in funding assistance to maintain operations. Although the amount is more than the gardens board of directors had requested, it is only a one-year deal. The Ontario government expects the board to make revisions to its financial systems and will provide financial consultants.
Continue reading "Royal Botanical Gardens Gets Reprieve"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 1:48 PM
The Art of Botanical Illustration
Category(-ies): Botanical Art
The Special Collections Department at the University of Delaware Library maintains a small site (from a 2001 exhibition) on the development of botanical illustration.
Continue reading "The Art of Botanical Illustration"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:45 AM
Therapeutic Compounds from Weeds
Category(-ies): Plants, Food and Medicine
Since the formation of the National Health Service in 1945, pharmaceuticals have replaced once-common herbal remedies in Great Britain. A group of RBG Kew scientists is re-examining plants traditionally used as therapeutic remedies to potentially discover compounds for new medicines.
Continue reading "Therapeutic Compounds from Weeds"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 1:56 PM
Dr. David Mabberley Joins Faculty at Univ. of Washington
Category(-ies): Botanists and Horticulturists , Other Botanical Gardens
David J. Mabberley, an internationally renowned botanist, has been hired as director of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture and Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum. He will join the faculty at UW as professor of economic botany in the College of Forest Resources and hold the UW's Orin and Althea Soest Chair in Horticultural Science.
Continue reading "Dr. David Mabberley Joins Faculty at Univ. of Washington"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 1:43 PM
