Thais Vasconcelos calls the University of Michigan Herbarium her "baby" and is making history as its first female director ...

Started in 1882 by traveling herbologist Professor Francis LeRoy Harvey, the herbarium grew to house around 3,000 plant ...

The Texas Science & Natural History Museum hosted a fossil identification event on Oct. 15 in celebration of National Fossil ...

Preserving DNA in biological samples has long posed a challenge for researchers, but the process may be about to get a lot ...

In his rollicking scientific true-crime book, The Butterfly Thief, Walter Marsh delves into the dark side of museum ...

The Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has a new director. Kanad Das is the first mycologist to head the premier research institute under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1219894 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1219894 Copy URL Developments in EDP-IR within herbaria are briefly reviewed and progress with ...

The Violaceae-Dataset consists of 345 herbarium specimen images (~50.9MB) representing 36 species of the Violaceae family native to South Korea.

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...

A century after Kew’s first study of the British Virgin Islands’ plants, modern research is guiding new ways to protect its incredible botanical heritage In the early 1900s, Walter Charles Fishlock, a ...