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Complementary Analysis and Implementation Plan for Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in Finland
Plants, 2023 Crop wild relatives (CWR) are valuable wild plant species that can be used as genetic resources providing adaptive traits to crop plants and therefore they play an important role in future food security.
Heli Fitzgerald +3 more
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Seed banks as a partnership for global plant conservation
Acta Biologica Slovenica, 2014 A seed bank is a collection of plant seeds stored under appropriate conditions in which seeds are periodically checked for their germination ability – viability of seeds.
Jože Bavcon, Blanka Ravnjak
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Habitat differentiation and conservation gap of Magnolia biondii, M. denudata, and M. sprengeri in China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The flower buds of Magnolia biondii, M. denudata, and M. sprengeri are the materials of Xinyi, a traditional Chinese medicine. The harvest of flower buds and habitat fragmentation caused by human disturbance heavily threatens the natural regeneration and
Chuangye Song, Huiming Liu
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Snowtrout fishery in Garhwal Himalaya: Causes of depletion and strategy for propagation
Environment Conservation Journal, 2009 Snowtrout (Schizothorax sp.) is an important group of fishes in Indian uplands and is prone to decline due to several anthropogenic activities and natural disasters. However, the natural behaviour of the group is also one of the
N.K. Agarwal, Harpal Singh
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Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation needs
Plant Diversity, 2016 The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency—or the funding—that drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us.
Richard T. Corlett
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One Conservation concept in practice
Theriogenology Wild, 2023 The One Conservation is an integrative process for biodiversity conservation. This communication describes how this integrated method, involving many institutions, resulted in the birth of a jaguar cub that should be reintroduced to the wild, thereby ...
Thiago Cavalheri Luczinski +14 more
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Fungal biodiversity and in situ conservation in Italy [PDF]
Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, 2011 A remarkable increase in knowledge of fungal biodiversity in Italy has occurred in the last five years. The authors report up-to-date numbers of fungi (Basidiomycota and Ascomycota) by regions together with distributional and ecological data on hypogeous fungi.
G. VENTURELLA +22 more
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How to conserve threatened Chinese plant species with extremely small populations?
Plant Diversity, 2016 The Chinese flora occupies a unique position in global plant diversity, but is severely threatened. Although biodiversity conservation in China has made significant progress over the past decades, many wild plant species have extremely small population ...
Sergei Volis
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SibbaldiaWhile historically serving ornamental, medicinal and agricultural purposes, botanic gardens and arboreta have opened their doors to the public and have extended their missions to encompass the study, preservation and support of plant diversity. Longwood
Peter Zale +2 more
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Plants, People, Planet, 2020 Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives—wild species closely related to cultivated plants—are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, but gaps in knowledge constrain their conservation and limit their further use.
Colin K. Khoury +11 more
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