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Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank
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 conserva...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8623176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34834734 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112371 |
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author | Breman, Elinor Ballesteros, Daniel Castillo-Lorenzo, Elena Cockel, Christopher Dickie, John Faruk, Aisyah O’Donnell, Katherine Offord, Catherine A. Pironon, Samuel Sharrock, Suzanne Ulian, Tiziana |
author_facet | Breman, Elinor Ballesteros, Daniel Castillo-Lorenzo, Elena Cockel, Christopher Dickie, John Faruk, Aisyah O’Donnell, Katherine Offord, Catherine A. Pironon, Samuel Sharrock, Suzanne Ulian, Tiziana |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-86231762021-11-27 Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank Breman, Elinor Ballesteros, Daniel Castillo-Lorenzo, Elena Cockel, Christopher Dickie, John Faruk, Aisyah O’Donnell, Katherine Offord, Catherine A. Pironon, Samuel Sharrock, Suzanne Ulian, Tiziana Plants (Basel) Review 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. MDPI 2021-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8623176/ /pubmed/34834734 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112371 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Breman, Elinor Ballesteros, Daniel Castillo-Lorenzo, Elena Cockel, Christopher Dickie, John Faruk, Aisyah O’Donnell, Katherine Offord, Catherine A. Pironon, Samuel Sharrock, Suzanne Ulian, Tiziana Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank |
title | Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank |
title_full | Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank |
title_fullStr | Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank |
title_full_unstemmed | Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank |
title_short | Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank |
title_sort | plant diversity conservation challenges and prospects—the perspective of botanic gardens and the millennium seed bank |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8623176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34834734 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112371 |
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