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THE JEPSON GLOBE a Newsletter from the Friends of the Jepson Herbarium THE JEPSON GLOBE A Newsletter from the Friends of The Jepson Herbarium VOLUME 23 NUMBER 1, Spring 2013 Director’s Column: Herbaria Futures Meets its Introducing the California First Challenge! Moss eFlora By Brent D. Mishler By Brent D. Mishler In June 2012, the University and A new online flora of California Jepson Herbaria began an ambitious mosses has been posted at: ucjeps. campaign, Herbaria Futures, to build berkeley.edu/CA_moss_eflora/. It is a an endowment for the Herbaria that will collaborative effort of a broad group of ensure a core foundation of support for professional and amateur bryologists, infrastructure and care of the collec- coordinated by UC Berkeley and Cal tions, continued primary research and State Northridge. The initial editorial its dissemination, and cultivation of the board is Paul Wilson (lead editor) Brent next generation of botanists, ecologists, D. Mishler, Richard L. Moe, Daniel H. and conservationists. Norris, and James R. Shevock. There Phase one of the campaign was is a full set of dichotomous keys, links a huge success with gifts from 330 to photographs and line drawings for Friends in 2012! I am so thankful to many taxa, as well as distribution maps each of you who supported the cam- paign and I also extend my deep grati- drawn from digitized specimens at UC Exciting updates from the Berkeley and California Academy of tude to Rod and Cathy Park for their Sciences. Center for Phycological generous matching gift of $50,000! We It is a work in progress. The initial Documentation are so privileged to have such dedicated and supportive Friends. A new Her- basis for this flora derives from three Breaking news! The University baria Futures endowment fund has print publications — two papers by Herbarium was recently notified that been established with a starting capital Norris and Shevock in Madroño in it will soon be receiving NSF funds balance of $100,000 resulting from 2004, and the book California Mosses to participate in a nationwide project, this first phase of our campaign. The by Malcolm, Malcolm, Shevock, and The Macroalgae Herbarium Consor- Herbaria’s future is brighter because of Norris (Micro-optics Press, 2009) tium: Accessing 150 Years of Speci- your willingness to get involved. — as well as previously unreleased men Data to Understand Changes in full-length treatments of about 400 the Marine/Aquatic Environment. The ALSO IN THIS ISSUE species by D. H. Norris. The eFlora consortium will be a network of 48 includes many updates to this previous U.S. institutions and, collectively, they Welcome Ingrid Jordan-Thaden work and will continue to be updated. will digitize more than one million Jepson Manual Supplements The California Moss eFlora will be a macroalgae specimens. The analysis Heckard Award Recipients worthy companion to the Jepson eFlora of this information will benefit society Pacific Crest Trail Guide for California vascular plants (ucjeps. by having a profound effect on how Paul Silva 90th birthday berkeley.edu/IJM.html) and other aquatic resources are managed. More Jepson Library Renovation eFloras in the planning stages. details on this grant will be presented We regard this as a community in future issues of the Globe. Cover image by Sheraz Sadiq / KQED (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 8) Welcome Ingrid Jordon-Thaden lication: www.plosone.org/article/ info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal. This past fall, Dr. Ingrid Jordon- A New Molecular Method pone.0050226), where she contributed Thaden became a Research Botanist That is Transforming RNA extraction method development with the University and Jepson Her- Phylogenetic Studies for woody and aquatic plants. Her most baria. She holds a PhD in Biology from recent collaborative publication is the Next Generation Sequencing the University of Heidelberg, Germany, result of a special symposium attended (NGS) is an inclusive term where she studied the phylogeny and by the Soltis Lab held on NGS for plant that describes a multitude of phylogeography of the genus Draba systematics and ecology in October newer methods and platforms (Brassicaceae) under the guidance 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. This for DNA sequencing, but does of Prof. Dr. Marcus A. Koch and co- manuscript is part of a special issue not include traditional Sanger advised by Dr. Ihsan Al-Shehbaz from from that symposium and can be found sequencing. These methods the Missouri Botanical Garden. at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10 differ from the latter by read- Before arriving at Cal, Ingrid held ing thousands or millions 80/17550874.2012.745909 with a Uni- a two-year post-doctoral research posi- of sequences in parallel; versity of California library subscrip- tion at the Florida Museum for Natural Sanger sequencing reads tion, and is available upon request by History and Department of Biology at one piece of DNA at a time. calling the Herbarium (510) 643-7008. the University of Florida under the su- With NGS, you can get many This last manuscript, published in Plant pervision of Drs. Pam and Doug Soltis. more sequences to work with, Ecology and Diversity (formally known Her work in Florida focused on the and at a lower cost than ac- as the Botanical Journal of Scotland), quiring data one gene at a evolution of polyploidy in Tragopogon is directed to plant biologists who are time. Researchers can obtain (Asteraceae). facing the challenges of deciding on the sequences on a genomic- Ingrid has extensive greenhouse, experimental design for using NGS for scale with NGS, affording the field, and lab experience with plants phylogenetics and marker development. potential for powerful evolu- and considers herself a holistic plant In the summer of 2012, Ingrid’s tionary comparisons using systematist. Her research career began large-scale data sets. Previ- focus turned back to Draba and she be- in her home state, Nebraska, at the Uni- ously, the hurdle with NGS, gan fieldwork onDraba oligosperma in versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she at least in many labs, was the the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, obtained a BS in Horticultural Science, preparation of DNA libraries Idaho, and Utah, one of the many inter- a BS in Chemistry (chemotaxonomy), (e.g., pieces of DNA represent- esting Draba systems to study. More and a MS in Biology (proteomics of ing an organismal genome), information about Dr. Jordon-Thaden’s corn mitochondria), studying plants which required significant research may be found at ucjeps.berke- laboratory time and was very under Drs. Robert Kaul, Chuck But- ley.edu/people/ijordonthaden. expensive. However, the cost terfield, and Tom Elthon. of library construction is de- Some of her recent publications deal creasing, as is the cost of the with using new technologies of Next sequencing. NGS is now af- Generation Sequencing (NGS). She is fordable to most laboratories a strong advocate of embracing new (especially with collabora- approaches to molecular phylogenetics tions), and most researchers and population genomics, and tying already have the lab skills to them to phenotypical observations. She carry out the work. Moreover, has been part of a group of researchers newer barcoding methods al- who are developing Tragopogon (Goat’s low for tagging of individual Beard-Asteraceae) as a non-model samples with a molecular identifier, allowing for pooling system to study evolution in plants (see of many samples into a single American Journal of Botany Vol. 99 No. multiplexed sequencing run. 2 for an entire issue dedicated to NGS Multiplexing makes NGS an in plant biology: www.amjbot.org/con- economical option because it tent/99/2.toc; and specifically Buggs et spreads the total costs for se- al. 2012 for the article on Tragopogon: quencing over a larger num- www.amjbot.org/content/99/2/372. ber of individual samples. full). Additionally, Dr. Jordon-Thaden Ultimately, researchers can was involved in the large collaborative get larger amounts of data project to sequence the transcriptome at a fraction of the costs re- Photos, top, Dr. Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, of 1,000 plant species (www.onekp. quired for traditional Sanger bottom (photo by Gary Monroe) Draba org) (see following methodology pub- sequencing approaches. oligosperma. 2 3 The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition: Supplement I By Thomas J. Rosatti, Scientific Editor, Jepson Flora Project As I was unpacking my copy of group with Chamaesyce”, despite the a native that had been overlooked (no The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants fact that Chamaesyce and Euphorbia examples in Supplement I) or, much of California, Second Edition (TJM2; nevertheless are recognized as separate more frequently, unfortunately, yet UC Press, 2012), I was distracted by genera in TJM2. Dodecatheon, another non-native taxon that has the thought that it was already out-of- though itself monophyletic, is part become naturalized (i.e., that has date. To help remedy this, the Jepson of a similar example, in that Primula escaped cultivation and is reproducing Flora Project has adopted a strategy is monophyletic only if it includes in some way) in the area covered (e.g., that includes two important elements: Dodecatheon, yet both genera are Gamochaeta argyrinea, Sphaeropteris 1) updating the Jepson eFlora; and recognized in TJM2. Reconsideration cooperi). In the case of naturalized taxa 2) the printing of supplements, for use has led to new taxonomic treatments of that have become so successful in the with the printed book, that will include Euphorbia (to include Chamaesyce) and area covered that they are problematic, sets of these revisions. Primula (to include Dodecatheon) that there is urgency to get them incorporated The need for such a strategy are more in line with the philosophy of into floristic works so that they may be was evident even as we were in the the Jepson Flora Project, and that will more readily and accurately identified, final stages of preparing the TJM2 appear in Supplement I.
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