SCIENCETHE GUARDIAN WORLD
AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists
AI and digitisation are aiding botanists in identifying and preserving vital plants to combat extinction. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew report highlights technologies enabling rapid species identification, tracking shifting flowering times, and extracting genetic data from century-old fungi specimens, potentially unlocking a genomic goldmine.
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