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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A megaphylogeny of the angiosperms
Jan. 21, 2020
This new publication presents a dated megaphylogeny of the angiosperms, consisting of more than 36,000 species. It was (partly) funded by Plant.ID and involved 5 Plant.ID people from 3 different Plant.ID institutes and even a member of our supervisory board.
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María's secondment in Tromsø
Jan. 21, 2020
María went to Tromsø for her first scientific secondment and visited Prof. Inger Greve Alsos at the Tromsø University Museum. The darkness and cold proved challenging but it was a success! ( pictures)
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From the desert to the arctic: Plant.ID conquers USA
Dec. 19, 2019
Life in academia is not always doom and gloom. Some highlights are participating in conferences and going on fieldwork. Yannick and Anne-Sophie did just that last summer and they write about it in their blog post.
Research output
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A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses
Janssens SB, Couvreur TLP, Mertens A, Dauby G, Dagallier L-PMJ, Vanden Abeele S, Vandelook F, Mascarello M, Beeckman H, Sosef MSM, Droissart V, van der Bank M, Maurin O, Hawthorne W, Marshall C, Réjou-Méchain M, Beina D, Baya F, Merckx V, Verstraete B, Hardy O, 2020. A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e39677. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e39677
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The use of high-throughput sequencing for the identification of illegally logged African trees
Mascarello M, Beeckman H, Smets E, Janssens S, 2019. The use of high-throughput sequencing for the identification of illegally logged African trees. At: 5th Annual Meeting on Plant Ecology and Evolution. Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium. 29 November 2019.
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Metabarcoding to trace adulteration in local Greek products
Anthoons B, Madesis P, Drouzas A, de Boer H, 2019. Metabarcoding to trace adulteration in local Greek products. At: Cyprus University of Technology. Limassol, Cyprus. 22 November 2019.
