Dear Colleagues,
We are posting this letter on Convolvulaceae Unlimited to reach people who have worked with Convolvulaceae and those in particular who have research interests in Ipomoea.
You may know that we received a small grant in 2011 to develop a “foundation monograph” of the genus Convolvulus. The idea of the foundation monograph project is to produce worldwide accounts of large genera in a relatively short period of time bringing together information from a wide variety of sources including molecular studies in much the same way as the Flora Europaea project did for European floristics. The project is interested not only in the immediate output, that is the monograph of Convolvulus, but also in developing a more rapid methodology for the pragmatic monographing of large tropical genera. The project is based in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford but various other U.K. institutions are involved including the Natural History Museum, London, the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Work began in July 2011.
Our work on Convolvulus is well advanced and we now have a grant to work on Ipomoea worldwide over the next three years and are beginning with this at the present time. We very much hope that our project will facilitate your own research in Ipomoea through its activities and output and assure you that we will endeavour to avoid any clash of interests and, in particular, will fully acknowledge any help we receive from you as well as, of course, your publications. We will, of course, be happy to pass on any information we may find which is relevant to your interests at the earliest possible stage. We also hope that there will be opportunities to meet and discuss issues related to Ipomoea, perhaps during visits to your institutions at some future date or your visits to Britain.
We would very much like to hear from you and would be happy to provide information about our project whenever you wish.
Robert Scotland, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
John Wood, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Beth Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Mark Carine, Natural History Museum, London
David Harris, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Paul Wilkin, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
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