Curtis Clark
Activities at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

• My home page
• Botany 375, Plant Speciation
• Useful resources for making presentations
• Ongoing research at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
  • Chimeric DNA in Encelia virginensis and E. asperifolia, two species of homoploid hybrid origin (with Rashmi Pant and Gery Allan).
  • ITS of Encelia and its usefulness in reconstructing phylogeny of the genus.
  • ITS in Eschscholzia (California poppy).
• Planned and potential research projects
  • ITS as a marker of introgression in Encelia.
  • Scanning electron microscope study of floral trichomes in Encelia.
  • Molecular study of hybridization in southern California Salix.
  • Clonal reproduction in Arundo donax.
  • Comparative autecology of Eschscholzia ramosa on different California Channel Islands.
  • Secondary succession and non-native plants on California Channel Islands

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