Science link of the month
 

UA Herbarium involved in creating convolvulaceae pollen atlas

 

This month's science link is to UA Herbarium's effort to create the convolvulaceae pollen atlas:

https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/projects/pollen_atlas

Check out the fantastic effort to compile images of family from this important family. Pollen features are an important tool for taxonomical classification. However, many of these valuable images remain in disparate unpublished sources. The atlas project hopes to mitigate this short coming.

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