As a member observer of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN), China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) has just been shared with the international colleagues on the news about Chicago Botanic Garden has joined GGBN.

Chicago Botanic Garden has joined GGBN as part of the GGI Gardens Program, an effort to enhance global plant collections by strategically collecting and preserving genome-quality samples representing global plant diversity. The Chicago Botanic Garden's collection comprises 13,286 samples representing approximately 5,000 plant species, a subset of which will be made discoverable through GGBN by August 2020.

(Photo source: wiki.ggbn.org)

Reference links:

https://wiki.ggbn.org/ggbn/News#15_July_2019-Chicago_Botanic_Garden_joins_GGBN

http://www.cbcgdf.org/English/NewsShow/5008/9125.html

By / Niu Jingmei