Teaching children about endangered plants is the goal of a new University of Guelph program that aims to provide rare plants in zero-maintenance glass vessels to schoolkids across Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under an event called Conservation Through Propagation to be run by the University this fall, custom-made Living Glass orbs containing endangered Canadian plants will be sent to registered Grade 6-12 classes across Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project is sponsored by World Wildlife Fund Canada\u2019s Go Wild school grant program and Living Glass, a new company founded by fourth-year biomedical sciences student Dennis Zhu. He is working on the project with Dr. Max Jones, a professor in the Ontario Agricultural College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A specialist in plant tissue culture, Jones belongs to U of G\u2019s Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, which uses micropropagation and cryopreservation to help conserve endangered plant species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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