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Tomas Zavada
UMASS Boston
Boston, MA

Mark your calendar for the NEBC Meeting with Tomas Zavada on March 6th, 6:45 PM.

"Case Studies in Domestication and Biological Invasions in Genera Cichorium and Centaurea (Asteraceae)"

The current flora of New England consists of both native and non-native species. Nonindigenous plants have been introduced since first Europeans landed in North America in the 15th century. The first record of planting Cichorium intybus (chicory) in the U.S. can be found in Thomas Jefferson's 1774 correspondence. The future success of this species in colonizing the United States was indicated in Jefferson's 1811 letter "...[Sichorium Intibus] has been growing here in abundance and perfection now 20 years without any cultivation after the first transplanting". We sampled and genotyped native Eurasian, North American current and herbarium chicory in order to reconstruct patterns of genetic variation over the past 200 years. The talk will also cover the domestication history in Cichorium endivia (endive) and hybridization between Centaurea (knapweed) species in New England.