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Governance and infrastructure as pillars of performance: A socio‐ecological analysis of Ethiopian botanical gardens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
While botanical gardens are often perceived merely as recreational spaces for a weekend walk, in the Global South, they are true lifelines for nature and for the people who depend on it. Our research in Ethiopia explored what actually keeps these gardens running long‐term.
Getahun Hassen, Haile Ketema, Getahun Haile, Mitiku Muanenda   +3 more
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Ex situ conservation of two rare oak species using microsatellite and SNP markers. [PDF]

Evol Appl
Koontz AC, Schumacher EK, Spence ES, Hoban SM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Progress and Challenges in Ex Situ Conservation of Forage Germplasm: Grasses, Herbaceous Legumes and Fodder Trees. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2020
Hanson J, Ellis RH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

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Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria, Luciane Vilela Resende, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +2 more
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Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops

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Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group, Stacy Lynn Lucas, Aurora K. Kagawa‐Viviani, Bryceson Tugade, Penny Levin, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Tamara Sherrill, Jerry Koko, Michael Kantar   +8 more
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Grape (Vitis L.) biodiversity: Historical uses, current status, and future potential

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Grapes (Vitis L. ‐ Vitaceae) are among the most important fruit crops globally, consumed in the form of wine, fresh fruit, raisins, and in many products. Complex and fascinating biocultural processes underpin the crop, with a remarkable assemblage of species comprising grapevines and with heterogeneous viticultural practices and rapidly advancing new ...
Colin K. Khoury, Anne Y. Fennell, Zoë Migicovsky, Allison J. Miller, Jun Wen   +4 more
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Metacestodosis as a threat for endangered species: a fatal case of neurocoenurosis in an Apennine chamois (<i>Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata</i> Neumann, 1899) housed in an <i>ex-situ</i> conservation facility within the Monti Sibillini National Park (Italy). [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Morandi B, Gavaudan S, Crotti S, Cruciani D, Rossi G, Angorini A, Dini F, Rossetti A, Morandi F.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenges for Ex Situ Conservation of Wild Bananas: Seeds Collected in Papua New Guinea Have Variable Levels of Desiccation Tolerance. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2020
Kallow S, Longin K, Sleziak NF, Janssens SB, Vandelook F, Dickie J, Swennen R, Paofa J, Carpentier S, Panis B.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Open letter: A call to integrate plant regeneration into sustainability science and policy

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fernando A. O. Silveira, Angelino Carta, Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Eduardo Fernández‐Pascual, Magda Garbowski, Thomas Hornick, Jitka Klimešová, Lotte Korell, Emma Ladouceur, Julie Larson, Alexandra N. Muellner‐Riehl, Ana Prohaska, Sergey Rosbakh, Christoph Rosche, Christiane Roscher, Mandy Slate, Jeronimo Vazquez‐Ramirez   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

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Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver, Colin K. Khoury, Anne Frances, Nan McCarry, Luis Diaz‐Garcia, Erin R. Galarneau, Sarah Gora, Megan Haidet, Claire Heinitz, Wesley Knapp, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Surya Sapkota, Carol Spurrier, Jun Wen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source