Support for the Systematics Research Collection at the Missouri Botanical Garden

密苏里州植物园是世界上 重要的植物学研究中心， 植物标本 植物标本馆的馆长们 研究热带植物的科学家们， 花园是一个巨大和独特资源， research. 来自世界各地的植物学家参观这些 收藏和请求标本的贷款，并获得这些 收藏品对当前数百项研究至关重要， 项目 不幸的是，新收藏的速度 已经超过了花园的能力， 标签，并在收藏品中归档标本。 30多万 标本已经积累在“积压”，和研究 社区表示强烈希望获得这些 标本 所罗门教授将监督一项为期三年的 开展消除积压的运动， 策展程序，将防止未来的积压， 积累。 处理密苏里州植物园积压的标本 花园将有利于世界各地的研究收藏。 研究热带生物多样性， 植物、生态学和进化研究都依赖于这些 集合，并将积压处理为可访问的 收藏将使花园的植物标本馆收藏更多 综合研究资源。

The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the world's most important centers for botanical research and for curation of plant specimens. The Curators of the Herbarium are leading researchers on tropical plants, and the collections amassed at the Garden represent an enormous and unique resource for research. Botanists from around the world visit these collections and request specimens on loan, and access to these collections is critical for hundreds of current research projects. Unfortunately, the rate at which new collections have arrived has outpaced the Garden's ability to mount, identify, label, and file specimens in the collections. More than 300,000 specimens have accumulated in "backlog", and the research community has expressed strong desire for access to these specimens. Dr. Solomon will oversee an aggressive three-year campaign to eliminate this backlog, and to put in place curatorial procedures that will prevent future backlogs from accumulating. Processing the specimen backlog at the Missouri Botanical Garden will benefit research collections around the world. Research into tropical biodiversity, medicinal use of native plants, ecological and evolutionary studies all rely on these collections, and processing the backlog into accessible collections will make the Garden's Herbarium collection a more comprehensive research resource.