Data providing member | Joined: March 1, 2017
Denver Botanic Gardens
Online since: August 7, 2017
Last update: January 3, 2023

Tissue and DNA Bank

The Denver Botanic Gardens' Tissue and DNA Bank is primarily comprised of silica-gel dried plant tissue samples representing over 270 populations of more than 80 species as well as approximately 8,000 DNA samples. Plants represented are typically from the Southern Rocky Mountain Region and are often rare or infrequent species. The number of tissue and DNA samples of fungal species is expected to grow.

Contacts

Sample Requests
Richard Levy
richard.levy@botanicgardens.org
1005 York Street
80206 Denver
United States

Institution Type

Botanic garden

Collection Type

Tissue, Genetic

Collection Coverage

Kingdoms: Fungi, Plantae
Taxa: N/A

Usage restrictions

All herbaria and biorepository data, as well as associated media are held within the Public Domain (CC0 1.0).

Access rights

Denver Botanic Gardens' herbaria, biorepositories, and associated data are open to the public. In person visits are by appointment only. Specific locality information for threatened, endangered or otherwise sensitive plant species may be withheld, depending upon the discretion of Denver Botanic Gardens staff.

Curation details

Primary Purpose: Destructive analysis
Development Status: Active growth
Known to contain types: No

McGinley Conservation statuses

Level 5: Identified and integrated material which is inadequately curated.
Level 6: Identified, integrated, and adequately curated.
Level 7: Physical curation complete, species level inventory complete.
Level 8: Physical curation complete, individual specimen label data captured.
Date: 2017-05-22

Institution Codes

Acronym: DBG
CITES: not registered

Rights

Denver Botanic Gardens reserves all intellectual and property rights of accessioned objects.