Black Gum Tree, Nashville, TN (IMAGE)

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

Black Gum Tree, Nashville, TN

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Dr. Meg Staton, assistant professor of bioinformatics with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, is participating in ?a three-year, $3-million grant by the National Science Foundation to develop a user-friendly interface that will help forest scientists record and share genomic data for various tree species.? A social media component of the project will allow citizens and youth to participate in data collection by geo-tagging individual trees with species information and an image.

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Photo of black gum in Nashville by P. McDaniels, courtesy UTIA.

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