ANBG Friends Plant Science Group - Technical Talk

Polyploidy in Australian Pomaderris and why it matters for conservation management

Speaker:  Dr Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn, CSIRO

Currently a cross-institutional working group coordinated by ANBG's living collections manager David Taylor and supported by a NSW Environmental Trust grant is working to improve propagation methods and conservation management options for rare species of the native shrub genus Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae). As part of this work, a CSIRO vacation student has
studied differences in genome size and the number of genome copies within and between these species, providing the very first insights into these patterns in native Pomaderris. Alexander will summarise the results of this research and discuss how they fit into and matter for conservation management.

Venue : ANBG Theatrette