The molecular revolution has transformed the landscape of plant biology research with a series of genomics projects of enormous taxonomic scope. Five South African institutions are part of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Portal, which creates and manages a globally distributed database of genomic samples linked to voucher specimens.
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