The potential role of public gardens as sentinels of plant invasion
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Topical Collection: Ex-situ Conservation
This collection of articles covers conservation of biodiversity of all kinds outside natural habitats, including botanic gardens, zoos, wildlife parks, aquaria, microbial resource centres, and sed ad tissue banks; also cryopreservation and micropropagation methods.
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Editors
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David L. Hawksworth CBE
Prof. Hawksworth is a mycologist and lichenologist with a professorship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Museum in London. He is Editor-in-Chief of Biodiversity and Conservation (Springer) and IMA Fungus (BMC).
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Assessing the storage potential of Australian rainforest seeds: a decision-making key to aid rapid conservation
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Gap analyses of priority wild relatives of food crop in current ex situ and in situ conservation in Indonesia
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Botanical gardens as key resources and hazards for biosecurity
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In vitro conservation and genetic diversity of threatened species of Melocactus (Cactaceae)
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Comparative analysis of the gene pool structure of Triticum aethiopicum wheat accessions conserved ex situ and recollected in fields after 85 years
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Enhancing seed conservation in rural communities of Guatemala by implementing the dry chain concept
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A safeguard measure of endemic and endangered plant species: cryostorage of Dianthus taxa
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Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections
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Cryopreservation enables long-term conservation of critically endangered species Rubus humulifolius
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How to meet the 2020 GSPC target 8 in Europe: priority-setting for seed banking of native threatened plants
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The conservation value of germplasm stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
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Cryobiotechnology of forest trees: recent advances and future prospects
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Plants in traditional home gardens: richness, composition, conservation and implications for native biodiversity in Benin
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Will the same ex situ protocols give similar results for closely related species?
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Increasing zoo’s conservation potential through understanding barriers to holding globally threatened amphibians
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Extinction risk of Zamia inermis: a demographic study in its single natural population
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Molecular and cytological characterization of the global Musa germplasm collection provides insights into the treasure of banana diversity
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Gaps in seed banking are compromising the GSPC’s Target 8 in a megadiverse country
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