Comparing hybridisation capture derived sequences from herbarium specimens with data from living material of the same genetic individuals

In this study we sampled specimens from the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) that were collected 12-50 years ago from cultivated individuals of Rhododendron javanicum. These cultivated individuals are still present as live plants in the living collection at RBGE and allowed us to assess the reliability of sequences recovered from herbarium material compared to freshly collected samples from the same genetic individuals.