Presentation: Fritillaria genteri: A Biography
April 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday, April 17, 7:00 pm
Presentation: Fritillaria genteri: A Biography
Presenter: Alexandria Kurkowski
Location: In-person presentation at the Siskiyou chapter meeting at Southern Oregon University Science Building, Room 161. Join us in-person or via Zoom from home. To register for Zoom, go to https://bit.ly/npsotalks.
Fritillaria gentneri (Gentner’s fritillary) is an endangered lily restricted to southwestern Oregon and adjacent northern California. It is hypothesized that F. gentneri is a hybrid of F. recurva and F. affinis, as evidenced by their shared distribution, as well as genetic, morphological, and phenotypic traits. Furthermore, chloroplast genome sequences provide evidence for multiple origins of F. gentneri. Alexandria Kurowski will be giving an overview of the species, and will also present her master’s research, which involves documenting the repeat landscape in twelve individuals across four populations of the three species, using low-coverage (0.15-0.2X) whole genome sequencing.
Alex is a second-year master’s student in the Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology department, born and raised in Montana and now residing in Albany, Oregon. She’s the current membership manager for NPSO and the graduate student curator of vascular plants for the Oregon State University herbarium.
