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AILANTHUS Grows in Brooklyn (October 2005)
Over 90,000 more species to be entered into AILANTHUS, the searchable database of the Garden's collection of living plants, made possible by a grant awarded to the Herbarium from the National Science Foundation.
BBG's Online Searchable Living Collections Database (June 2004)
A searchable database of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's collection of living plants is available on our website.
NYMF Receives Grant to Study Willows (Salix) and Gingseng (Aralia) (June 2004)
BBG's New York Metropolitan Flora project (NYMF) received a grant of $25,000 from the Eppley Foundation to study the taxonomy and floristics of willow (Salix) and ginseng (Aralia) species and to determine the extent to which populations of nonnative species of both are displacing populations of native species.
BBG Goes to the Woods (January 2001)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's botanical research extended up the Hudson River to Cornwall, New York, where staff scientists cataloged and analyzed the plants of the Black Rock Forest.
NYMF Scientists Get Wet Again (October 2000)
In summer 2000, BBG scientists completed their second season of fieldwork in the wetland and aquatic plant phase of the New York Metropolitan Flora project.
Dr. Kerry Barringer measuring the diameter of a tree within a vegetation quadrant at Black Rock Forest.
Begonias in Paradise (May 2000)
BBG scientists and colleagues traveled to the islands of Hawaii in May to collect leaf samples to be studied using DNA analysis.
DNA Sequencer at BBG (March 2000)
With the addition of an automated DNA sequencer (ABI Prismtm 310 Genetic Analyzer) to their recently refurbished molecular systematics laboratory, scientists at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden now have a state-of-the-art facility for studying how plant species evolved and how they are related.