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Plant ID

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:47 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Greece, Bulgaria, N. Macedonia
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Plants
Host institute(s): University of Thessaly (Greece)
Time span: Finished
Description: Plants are essential for many aspects of our daily lives as they provide food, medicines, and construction materials. Plants also affect us negatively through pollen and resulting allergies, poisonous species in gardens and pastures and as adulterants in herbal medicines, and as invasive aliens in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. Understanding and valorising botanical biodiversity requires accurate, modern and rapid assessment approaches. Plant diversity worldwide is under threat from destruction of natural habitats due to human population growth related consequences as well as climate change impacts on sensitive ecosystems. It is in our capacity to study, map and describe this diversity, and plant systematics and taxonomy has suffered from a loss of research and institutional funds as research has become more competitive and taxonomy was considered too descriptive to compete with emerging fundamental research.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:25 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey
Ecosystem coverage: Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Plants
Host institute(s): Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics (IPPG), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
Time span: Finished
Description: 1) Increase the research capacity of IPPG and its partner Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER) in DNA barcoding technologies – build a knowledge platform through an exchange of experience from leading European groups, organization of training events. 2) Increase the networking capacity of IPPG in DNA barcoding technologies both at national and international level. 3) Promote and enhance plant and phytopathogenic fungi biodiversity studies in Bulgaria through DNA barcoding technologies – focus on natural populations of endangered and endemic for Bulgaria species, medicinal plants, crops on economical importance. 4) Active participation in project initiatives of iBOL and its hub BIOSCAN Europe in the field of plant biodiversity studies. 5) Develop a knowledge and network platform for the establishment of BulBol community – a beyond project goal

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:19 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater
Taxonomic group(s): Protista
Host institute(s): INRAE Carrtel (France)
Time span: Finished
Description: Diat.barcode database is an open-access library of diatom barcodes which is curated and which guarantees good taxonomical homogeneity and good quality of sequences. Data have different sources (INRAE TCC, barcoding project of diatoms in UK, NCBI) and are curated by an international consortium of taxonomical experts (France, Germany, Sweden, UK, Spain, Russia, Croatia, Luxemburg). Diat.barcode v10 encompasses >8000 barcodes from >1500 species.