Collecting Coconut DNA (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Collecting Coconut DNA

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On the way to sample new leaf tissue from the crown a of coconut tree, an intrepid climber with a knife in his teeth grins at Bee Gunn, the scientist on the beach beneath him.

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Bee Gunn while doing research funded by the National Geographic Society

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