Program: “Fritillaria gentneri: A Biography”
May 19 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Monday, May 19, 7:30 pm- 8:30 pm
Program: “Fritillaria gentneri: A Biography”
Presenter: Alex Kurowski, Oregon State University
Location: Cordley Hall Room 2602, Oregon State University, Corvallis or by Zoom
Description: In southern Oregon and northern California, two species of Fritillaria overlap, F. affinis and F. recurva. In the northern part of their overlapping ranges, an endangered species known as Fritillaria gentneri was first discovered in 1942. Fritillaria gentneri shares morphological traits with both F. affinis and F. recurva, leading to the hypothesis that F. gentneri is a hybrid of the two species. These species have giant genomes that would be expensive to sequence and assemble into a full genome, meaning that traditional genomic analyses of F. gentneri origins are difficult to perform. After an introduction to the fascinating historical and conservation background of F. gentneri, Alex will share her two years of research regarding the unknown origin of this mysterious rare species.
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