Category Archives: MSc Plant Diversity

Latin descriptions – should we mourn their loss?

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Alastair Culham

Three years after the decision at at the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne (July 2011) to give botanists and mycologists the option of writing new species descriptions in Latin OR English (ICN Article 39.2) the press seem to have noticed … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity – Seminar Day

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Alastair Culham

Monday 1st September saw the current MSc Plant Diversity group reporting on their project progress and meeting with the external examiner: Dr Martin Ingrouille. The seminars covered a wide range of topics from user engagement through phenology to phylogenetic reconstruction.

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Citizen Science Samples – Update

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Oliver Ellingham

You may be wondering what happened to the samples that were sent in as part of the powdery mildew citizen science scheme. Over the past month or so, I have been working with these samples with Waheed, so look no … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity students get extra training in the preparation of herbarium specimens

Posted on June 13, 2014 by konyveskalman

The University of Reading Herbarium (RNG) is one of the few university based herbaria still actively collecting in the UK. While the collection is of modest size, some 300,000 specimens it is particularly valuable for DNA based research due to … Continue reading →

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A visit from Vic Aspland, President of the Cyclamen Society

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Alastair Culham

We were very pleased to welcome Vic Aspland, President of the Cyclamen Society, to the RNG herbarium today. Vic and colleagues from the Society had chance to examine the recently mounted herbarium collections of Cyclamen colchicum from the Society expedition … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity students visit RHS Wisley

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Alastair Culham

For those students not taking the fieldwork module today saw the final organised visit of the MSc course. This time to the RHS garden at Wisley, Surrey. The tour started with the RHS herbarium where we were shown one of … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: MSc Plant Diversity

Latin descriptions – should we mourn their loss?

MSc Plant Diversity – Seminar Day

Citizen Science Samples – Update

MSc Plant Diversity students get extra training in the preparation of herbarium specimens

A visit from Vic Aspland, President of the Cyclamen Society

MSc Plant Diversity students visit RHS Wisley

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