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Rubus Home Website for the Plant Genus Rubus - Acknowledgements
Rubus sengorensis

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all of the governments, institutions, and people who have contributed to our studies of Rubus during the past 16 years.  This includes funding, permission to collect specimens, plant specimens, DNA, primers, photos, web site construction, unpublished sequences, assistance in the field, assistance in the lab, and access to herbarium specimens (via on-site visits and loans).

Governments and Institutions
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service; National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon; Royal Government of Bhutan; Ministry of Environment, Ecuador; Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico.

Funding
U.S. National Science Foundation DEB-0236166
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Lawrence R. Heckard Fund, Jepson Herbarium
Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa
University of Maine Association of Graduate Students
Western Kentucky University:

  1. Applied Research and Technology Program
  2. Biotechnology Center
  3. Center for Biodiversity Studies
  4. Department of Biology
  5. Faculty Research Committee
  6. Ogden College of Science and Engineering
  7. University Honors Program

Botanical Gardens and Herbaria
Alaska Museum (ALA)
California Academy of Science (CAS)
California State University, Chico (CHSC)
Field Museum of Natural History Herbarium (F), Chicago
Harvard University Herbaria (GH)
Helsingborg Botanical Garden
Humboldt State University (HSC)
Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS)
Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales (QCNE)
Herbario, Universidad Nacional de Loja (LOJA)
Herbario Nacional, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (MEXU)
Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), St. Louis
Morton Arboretum
National Herbarium, Bhutan (THIM)
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSA-POM)
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE), Scotland, UK
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart
San Diego Natural History Museum (SD)
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden (SBBG)
Swedish Museum of Natural History (S)
University of Bonn Botanical Garden, Germany
University of California, Berkeley (JEPS, UC)
University of California, Riverside (UCR)
University of California, Davis (DAV)
University of Maine (MAINE)
University of Manitoba (MAN)
University of Saskatchewan (SASK)
Western Kentucky University (WKU)

People
John Andersland
Thomas Borsch
Christopher S. Campbell
Cassandra L. Cantrell
Allison Dibble
Yeshey Dorji
Torsten Eriksson
Chad Finn
Lynden Gerdes
Arthur Haines
Kim E. Hummer
Walter S. Judd
Malin Kerr
Cheryl Lennox
Hans Olaf Martensen
G. Matzke-Hajek
Cliff W. Morden
David Neill
Robert Neidlinger
Alf Oredsson
Richard Pankhurst
Dan Potter
Wilson Quizhpe
Gerardo Salazar
Jenny Smedmark
Heinrich E. Weber
Mark P. Widrlechner
Michael Woods
Wes Wright
Robert Wyatt

Student Researchers
Kerri Alexander
Karen Ambrose
Ruby Chang
Dustin Conover
Jeff Davis
T. Michael Dodson
Tabatha Eatherly
F. Nikki Glidewell
Amber Hogart
Nae’Shara Neal
Rohan Parekh
F. Coti Riddle
Cammie Rinehart
Ashley Stoker
Brittany L. Sutherland
Yinu Wang
Ashley A. Wint
Nathan G. Woolen

 

This website is part of a U.S. National Science Foundation DEB grant to Dr. Lawrence A. Alice (Western Kentucky University) to study the systematics of Rubus.

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