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Title: TreeBOL Africa

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TreeBOL Africa
Michelle van der Bank, Olivier Maurin, Adeniyi
Jayeola
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Objectives of TreeBOL

To advance plant DNA barcoding
To learn and teach about plant DNA barcoding
To provide leadership in the arena of plant DNA
barcoding
To help fulfill the goal of having 500 000
organisms barcoded
To complete a database of DNA barcodes for the
worlds 100 000 species of trees

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SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF TreeBOL
GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION OF TreeBOL K. Cameron D.
Little J. Miller
EUROPE J. Caujapé-Castells F. Forest
TEMPERATE NORTH ASIA K.J. Kim G.E. Xuejun
NORTH AMERICA K. Cameron S. Graham
EUROPE J. Caujapé-Castells F. Forest
TROPICAL SOUTHEAST ASIA J. Richardson R.
Chung L.G. Saw
INDIA T. Husain R. Tuli L.B. Chaudhary
AFRICA M. van der Bank O. Maurin A. Jayeola
AFRICA M. van der Bank O. Maurin A. Jayeola
MESO AMERICA G. Salazar
SOUTH AMERICA C. Van den Berg S. Madrinan
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND A. Lowe D. Crayn B.
Summerell
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African side of Tree-BOL, plans and goals

A kick-off workshop (October 2008)
identify the key species/species groups to be
targeted
Identification of the need of collaborators
Setting up target
Website (www.uj.ac.za/botany select tree-BOL
Africa)
Compiling a list of southern Africa trees
(September 2008)
Compiling a checklist of African trees (January
2009)
Setting up collaboration (SAf all Africa)
Collection/Barcoding of the estimated 1 700 trees
native to southern Africa (November 2009)
Collection/Barcoding of the estimated 1 000 trees
occurring in the CTFSPLOTS in Africa (January
2010).
Collection/Barcoding of 10-15 of African trees
(March 2010)

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University of Johannesburg Workshop 9-10 of
October 2008
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The workshop

Plant Barcoding Tree-BOL introduction
Each invited speaker presented its flora, target
group of interest.
Setting up the need of each country, institution
How UJ could provide help and support to the
projects collaborators

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Workshop output

Setting up regional groups (southern, eastern,
western Africa). BOLD structure
Traded trees, Medicinal plants, taxonomical
groups, region potentially rich
Fund application in each country/group
Kick-off with support from UJ ( silica gel, taq,
training)
Feedback after 6 months from each institution,
groups, and countries

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Our plans after the first workshop

Annual workshop,
Barcoding training week
Grant writing training (NRF, RS), proposal
sharing to help with grant applications
Student training at UJ through specific projects
Advice through website on barcoding (plant
collection, extraction, sequencing, submission to
BOLD)
Advice on setting up DNA banking
Information sharing (protocols)

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DNA barcoding of plant

Need to be setup with Guelph, BOLD
Seqeuencing and BOLD setup
No standard protocols available for plant since
barcode just agreed on.
Ongoing test between Guelph and UJ on Trees and
Shrubs of the Kruger National Park
Participating institutions might not need
sequencing facility, since all barcoding process
could be perform at Guelph)

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The project so far

Report to New York after 6 months
Webpage setup (to improve and update)
Grant proposal UJ, application to setup a center
of excellence devoted to barcoding
Workshop and collaboration setup
Material ready to be barcoded (800 species)
Grant proposal workshop in planning
Molecular technical training (association with
FishBOL) in planning

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TreeBOL Africa website