Plant Collecting & Herbarium Research! Pt 1

Ever wonder how botanists preserve plants so they can be used by researchers hundreds of years in the future? UC Berkeley PhD students Joyce Chery and Carrie Tribble are here to show you! In our next episode, we'll talk about the exciting research projects going on in UC Berkeley's herbarium, a collection of 2.2 million of these preserved plants!

To find out more about Carrie and Joyce's research, check out the Specht Lab website: http://spechtlab.berkeley.edu/

And to learn about UC Berkeley's Herbaria, follow this link:
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/

This episode was brought to you by:
The American Society of Plant Biologists
http://www.aspb.org
The European Society for Evolutionary Biology
http://www.eseb.org

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