Daniel Gómez, Botanist: “When We Give Flowers, We Give Away Sexual Organs”

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When botanists of the past collected plants that they classified and stored in scientific collections, they could not imagine the applications that this would have for current researchers. That is why, as Daniel Gómez (Jaca, 68), biologist who spent 35 years in charge of the herbarium of the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology of Jaca (IPE-CSIC) — the third largest in the country with 650,000 records— explains, today one of the key issues in the custo…