How can we identify plants?
Plants are essential for many aspects of our daily lives as they provide food, medicines, and construction materials. However, plants can also cause harm, think of poisonous plants, pollen allergies, adulterants in herbal medicines, or invasive species. Correct identification of plants is therefore crucial but unfortunately this is often problematic. Plant.ID will address this issue by developing state-of-the-art molecular solutions for a simplified way of identifying plants.
Latest news
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First Plant.ID publication
Nov. 4, 2019
Wonderful news! The first Plant.ID publication appeared online today. Congratulations to Nataly and her supervisory team!
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Ebony at Biodiversity_Next
Oct. 25, 2019
Also Mehrdad is participating in the Biodiversity_Next conference. His talk was about ebony wood identification to battle illegal trade.
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Pollen at Biodiversity_Next
Oct. 23, 2019
The Biodiversity_Next conference is in full swing and Plant.ID is participating as well! Marcel presented his work on automated pollen species image identification. We heard the room was packed!
Research output
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Historical chemical annotations of Cinchona bark collections are comparable to results from current day high-pressure liquid chromatography technologies
Canales NA, Gress Hansen TN, Cornett C, Walker K, Driver F, Antonelli A, Maldonado C, Nesbitt M, Barnes CJ, Rønsted N, in press. Historical chemical annotations of Cinchona bark collections are comparable to results from current day high-pressure liquid chromatography technologies. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.jep.2019.112375
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Ebony wood identification to battle illegal trade
Jahanbanifard M, Gravendeel B, Lens F, Verbeek FJ, 2019. Ebony wood identification to battle illegal trade. At: Biodiversity_Next. Leiden, The Netherlands. 22-25 October 2019.
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Automatic pollen species image identification
Polling M, de Boer HJ, Donders T, Verbeek FJ, Gravendeel B, 2019. Automatic pollen species image identification. At: Biodiversity_Next. Leiden, The Netherlands. 22-25 October 2019.
