Crowdfunding the Azolla fern genome project: a grassroots approach.
Abstract
Much of science progresses within the tight boundaries of what is often seen as a
"black box". Though familiar to funding agencies, researchers and the academic journals
they publish in, it is an entity that outsiders rarely get to peek into. Crowdfunding
is a novel means that allows the public to participate in, as well as to support and
witness advancements in science. Here we describe our recent crowdfunding efforts
to sequence the Azolla genome, a little fern with massive green potential. Crowdfunding
is a worthy platform not only for obtaining seed money for exploratory research, but
also for engaging directly with the general public as a rewarding form of outreach.
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Journal articleSubject
AzollaCrowdfunding
Cyanobacteria
Fern
Genome sequencing
Nitrogen fixation
Nostoc
Op-ed
Social media
Symbiosis
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10250Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1186/2047-217X-3-16Publication Info
Li, Fay-Wei; & Pryer, Kathleen M (2014). Crowdfunding the Azolla fern genome project: a grassroots approach. Gigascience, 3. pp. 16. 10.1186/2047-217X-3-16. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10250.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Kathleen M. Pryer
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