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Global Research Project Shows Strong Evolutionary Adaptation of White Clover
A newly published global study of white clover shows its strong evolutionary adaptation in urban...
Biology professor Marc Johnson (right) of the University of Toronto, Mississauga, served as the principal investigator (PI) of the white clover project. With him are assistant professor Rob Ness (far left), co-PI and second author; and doctoral student James Santangelo, first author.
Marine evolutionary ecologist Joanna Griffiths worked on the project while a doctoral student at Louisiana State University. She quantified the amount of hydrogen cyanide present in each clover sample "from rural Baton Rouge all the way to the city center. Each sample was digested and incubated for a couple hours," she said. “The cyanide in the sample chemically reacts with the special paper, turning it blue. Thus, a blue spot on the paper indicates that the clover sample had cyanide present.”
This map from the published research article shows the sites and results of the white clover project.