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Plantbio Digest, Vol 18, Issue 4
Some thoughts: Crops research dept at USDA located in Beltsville, MD might
help and they have an extensive library in Beltsville, Maryland. There is a Herbarium in Washington, DC at the US National Arboretum which has always had notable botanists like Skinner who is retired and T. R. Dudley (who was a Rhodes Scholar) and published many research papers as well as the Arboretum directors. I'm not sure if they still have their library. Dudley and others became famous for their explorations around the world, especially in the remotest locations of the earth, like the Cordillera Vilcabamba in Peru, or explorations in China and Turkey. They have a herbarium (dried plant collection) from their explorations and it is used to identify plants from all over the world. As an interesting note, the U.S. National Arboretum also had been given and grew the famous seeds found in a Chinese glacier. Although ancient, frozen and had very little chance for survival, those seeds sprouted into the metasequoia glyptr-spelling is lost on me now-so that now everyone can see the great trees known only to ancient times, which were tended and grown at the US National Arboretum. Clarissa Westenburger 540-960-1333 -----Original Message----- From: [mailto Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:03 PM To: Subject: Plantbio Digest, Vol 18, Issue 4 Send Plantbio mailing list submissions to To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/plantbio or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to You can reach the person managing the list at When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than " Contents of Plantbio digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Archeobotany (Robert) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:14:25 -0500 From: Robert Subject: [Plant-biology] Archeobotany To: Message-ID: BNENKLEDBLHIGLFABKGJOEBEDHAA.rbennett@enablingwor ds.com I'm hoping you can help me out of a jam. I am a novelist based in New York. I'm writing a mystery novel which has as a character an Archeobotanist. In the prologue to the story he has uncovered an ancient jar of grain which, when broken, awakens and unleashes a dormant corn disease that is quickly spreading globally. Here's my problem, I want this character to help the agricultural pathologists in the story to identify and cure the disease. I'm wondering how to describe how the character might do this. Can you please help me? Thank you. Robert P. Bennett Writer/Lecturer Author: "Blind Traveler Down A Dark River" www.enablingwords.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plantbio mailing list http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/plantbio End of Plantbio Digest, Vol 18, Issue 4 *************************************** -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.6/535 - Release Date: 11/15/2006 |
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