scholarly journals Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 2901-2949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udayangani Liu ◽  
Tiziana A. Cossu ◽  
Rachael M. Davies ◽  
Félix Forest ◽  
John B. Dickie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seed Bank ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Threatened Plants ◽  
The Status ◽  
Orthodox Seeds ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Seed Collections

scholarly journals Safeguarding Wild Plant Genetic Resources of Georgia within the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Tsira Mikatadze-Panstulaia ◽  
Sandro Kolbaia ◽  
Ana Gogoladze
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Seed Bank ◽  
Plant Genetic Resources ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Wild Plant ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Seed Collection ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

Working group of the Department of Plant Conservation of the National Botanical Garden of Georgia (NBGG) have been participating in the global Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew since 2005. During the 2005-2018 period, within the scope of MSB-1 and MSB-2, seeds and herbarium samples of more than 1750 plant species and interspecific taxa, belonging to 107 families and 483 genera (more than 41% of Georgia’s flora) – 348 endemics of Caucasus and 151 endemics of Georgia, have been secured in the National Seed Bank of Georgia (NSB). Seed Bank data are managed in BRAHMS (Department of Plant Sciences of Oxford University). The collection of wild plant species is accompanied by the comprehensive database of geographical, botanical and habitat information. Later phase involves laboratory treatment and germination/viability testing (at least 500 seeds per species) and the long-term deposition and storage (under -20◦C temperature) at the National Seed Bank of Georgia. The duplicates of seed collection and herbarium vouchers are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Germination capacity and viability of collections in NSB is determined before cold storage of seeds, while at the MSB already banked seeds are tested.Keywords: Seed bank; Ex-situ conservation; Plant diversity; Botanical garden; Genetic resources

scholarly journals Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2371
Author(s):  
Elinor Breman ◽  
Daniel Ballesteros ◽  
Elena Castillo-Lorenzo ◽  
Christopher Cockel ◽  
John Dickie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Seed Bank ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Seed Banks ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Wild Plant ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Integrated Conservation

There is a pressing need to conserve plant diversity to prevent extinctions and to enable sustainable use of plant material by current and future generations. Here, we review the contribution that living collections and seed banks based in botanic gardens around the world make to wild plant conservation and to tackling global challenges. We focus in particular on the work of Botanic Gardens Conservation International and the Millennium Seed Bank of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with its associated global Partnership. The advantages and limitations of conservation of plant diversity as both living material and seed collections are reviewed, and the need for additional research and conservation measures, such as cryopreservation, to enable the long-term conservation of ‘exceptional species’ is discussed. We highlight the importance of networks and sharing access to data and plant material. The skill sets found within botanic gardens and seed banks complement each other and enable the development of integrated conservation (linking in situ and ex situ efforts). Using a number of case studies we demonstrate how botanic gardens and seed banks support integrated conservation and research for agriculture and food security, restoration and reforestation, as well as supporting local livelihoods.

scholarly journals Threatened Plants – How to Save Them

Oryx ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
Grenville Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Threatened Plants ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Service Commission ◽  
Data Book ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Flowering Plant Species ◽  
Specialist Groups

In May 1974 IUCN set up the Threatened Plants Committee (TPC) of the Survival Service Commission, with Professor J. Heslop-Harrison, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, as Chairman, and Grenville Lucas, also of Kew, as Secretary. The need for a comprehensive survey had been highlighted by Dr Ronald Melville's pioneer work in compiling the Red Data Book for plants. The Committee's task is to prepare a world list of endangered and threatened (flowering) plant species so that action plans can be drawn up. The world's decision-makers must have the facts. The work is centred at Kew. Material is collected and action planned, either through regional groups (the European group has already produced a preliminary draft of rare, threatened and endangered plants), or through specialist groups (a world-wide palm group was the first to be appointed). A third approach is through institutions – most of the world's major botanic gardens sent representatives to a conference at Kew in September 1975. The following is a summary, with extracts, of Grenville Lucas's paper on the work of the TPC read at the IUCN meeting in Kinshasa.

scholarly journals Why Plants Are Vital

Oryx ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 453-458
Author(s):  
Charlie Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Panama Canal ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Threatened Plants ◽  
Wild Wheat ◽  
The Future ◽  
Staple Foods ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Cape Horn

Man depends on plants for his food – directly through crops and indirectly through animals – and all our staple foods are derived from only about 30 species of plants. Yet we continue to fell the forests and clear land, exterminating plants that could possibly avert disasters in the future – just as the apparently useless wild wheat discovered in Turkey in 1948 proved to be resistant to certain diseases, including four races of rust, and is now used to breed rust-resistant hydrids. The author lists some of the disasters now occurring, such as siltation of waterways resulting from erosion due to forest destruction – some bulk cargoes are now diverted round Cape Horn due to silt in the Panama Canal. He asks, how severe must ecological disasters become before we recognise our dependence? Dr Jarvis works for IUCN's Threatened Plants Committee (TPC) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

scholarly journals The conservation value of germplasm stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1347-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udayangani Liu ◽  
Elinor Breman ◽  
Tiziana Antonella Cossu ◽  
Siobhan Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Seed Bank ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

scholarly journals The Woodhen: A Flightless Island Bird Defying Extinction.

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
Harry F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Zoological Survey ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Environmental Survey ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
The Status ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

I BEGIN this review of Clifford Frith’s book on the Lord Howe Island Woodhen Gallirallus sylvestris with a ‘conflict of interest’ admission. Long ago, 1970–72 to be precise, while at the Australian Museum, I coordinated an environmental survey of Lord Howe Island. The survey was undertaken at the request of the Lord Howe Island Board for the museum to determine the status of the island’s flora and fauna. As the museum had a long association with Lord Howe Island commencing in 1869 when a team of scientists from the museum undertook a zoological survey of the island, the approach from the Board was well-received by museum staff many of whom participated in the survey. The survey was also joined by botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens and zoologists from CSIRO.

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