Laboratorio de Malherbología, Dpto. Agricultura y Alimentación, Gobierno de Aragón
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Registration date
22/08/2007 -
Update date
31-08-2007 - Download the sheet
Description
The Malherbología Laboratory (Weed Research Lab.) was created in 1974. Nowadays, it is included in the Plant Protection Unit of the Agricultural Research Service of Aragon, located in Saragossa (Spain). This laboratory has a living collection of weed species, a weed herbarium (including seedlings) and a weed germplasm collection conserved in cool for teaching and study purposes (Small samples area usually free provided). A computerised collection of regional ecological and phenological data are also available.
Overall information
Goals
1- Study of biological, phenological and ecological features of the plant species with agricultural interest, 2-Teaching courses to universitary institutions, 3- To provide to information and plant material
Strengths
1- Identification of weed's seedling, 2- Study of the Phenology of weeds, 3- Obtaining and preservaton of weeds, 4- Study of the resistence of several biotopes to weed-killers.
Taxonomic coverage
Scientific names
principalmente Magnoliophyta.
Common names
principalmente Angiospermas.
Geospatial coverage
algunos/as resto de la región mediterránea, principalmente Valle del Ebro (España).
Temporal location
Temporal coverage
todo(s) taxón existente.