Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed-methods socioecological a....

Viruses infect plants in agricultural fields, marginal habitats, prairies, on mountain peaks...and everywhere else we look! Not all virus infections induce visible symptoms, though, and it's chall...

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While DNA has built the framework for molecular insights from museum collections, the utility of archival RNA remains largely unexplored. Likely a consequence of the known instability of RNA relative ...

To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from a...

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