The Herbarium of Babes-Bolayi University
The herbarium is a vast catalogue of plants where each of the specimens included provide unique information – where it was found, the morphological variability of the plant, preferred habitat, phenology (when it blooms or produces seeds), etc. Last but not least, due to the new techniques of DNA molecule analysis, herbaria are genuine gene banks that document the biodiversity of the
plant world at the molecular level. The DNA, which remains intact for many years, is now extracted from herbarium specimens, thus providing information on plant relations and evolutionary processes.
Contact Persons
(BBU) Babeș-Bolyai University, Mihai Puscas
Keywords
DNA molecule analysis
Genuine gene banks
Biodiversity
Plant specimens
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