21
May-2013

Herbaria are Great Resources!

Check out this link (Science Daily) to find one more reason to fight for the preservation of herbaria!  Fortunately, the Dean of my School sent this along to me with the message – “Herbaria rock!”  The piece is called “‘Whodunnit’ of Irish Potato Famine Solved.”  Herbarium specimens were used to discover the strain of potato blight that triggered the Irish Potato Famine.

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