SCIENCEJun 16 · 06:00 UTCTHE GUARDIAN TECHDamian Carrington Environment editor

AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists

AI and digitization are aiding botanists in identifying and saving vital plants to prevent extinction. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew report highlights how technology tracks shifting flowering times, identifies new specimens, and extracts genetic data from century-old fungi, potentially unlocking a genomic goldmine.

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