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Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)

The endemic Boswellia species (Burseraceae) on Socotra Island (Yemen) are of great local significance due to their various local ethnobotanical uses. However, despite the fact that these trees are endangered, little is known about their biology. We tested seed germination rates in controlled experim...

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Autores principales: Hamdiah, Salem, Karas, Lukáš, Houšková, Kateřina, Van Damme, Kay, Attorre, Fabio, Vahalík, Petr, Habrová, Hana, Lvončík, Samuel, Eler, Klemen, Maděra, Petr
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35684190
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11111418
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author Hamdiah, Salem
Karas, Lukáš
Houšková, Kateřina
Van Damme, Kay
Attorre, Fabio
Vahalík, Petr
Habrová, Hana
Lvončík, Samuel
Eler, Klemen
Maděra, Petr
author_facet Hamdiah, Salem
Karas, Lukáš
Houšková, Kateřina
Van Damme, Kay
Attorre, Fabio
Vahalík, Petr
Habrová, Hana
Lvončík, Samuel
Eler, Klemen
Maděra, Petr
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description The endemic Boswellia species (Burseraceae) on Socotra Island (Yemen) are of great local significance due to their various local ethnobotanical uses. However, despite the fact that these trees are endangered, little is known about their biology. We tested seed germination rates in controlled experiments (trials of 21 days) for two subsequent years and for nine endemic taxa of Boswellia occurring on Socotra Island. For this, seeds were collected island-wide from a wide range of localities and for several populations per species. We observed differences in germination among Boswellia species, among species and localities and among both years, which indicates that the development of seeds is strongly affected by external ecological factors. Although we noted a large variation in seed germination (relatively high in Boswellia socotrana), and half of the species showed relatively low mean daily germination, our study indicated that all endangered endemic Frankincense Tree taxa of Socotra harbor the potential for in situ conservation through recruitment, given that known impacts can be reduced in local replantation areas (e.g., grazing).
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spelling pubmed-91826412022-06-10 Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen) Hamdiah, Salem Karas, Lukáš Houšková, Kateřina Van Damme, Kay Attorre, Fabio Vahalík, Petr Habrová, Hana Lvončík, Samuel Eler, Klemen Maděra, Petr Plants (Basel) Article The endemic Boswellia species (Burseraceae) on Socotra Island (Yemen) are of great local significance due to their various local ethnobotanical uses. However, despite the fact that these trees are endangered, little is known about their biology. We tested seed germination rates in controlled experiments (trials of 21 days) for two subsequent years and for nine endemic taxa of Boswellia occurring on Socotra Island. For this, seeds were collected island-wide from a wide range of localities and for several populations per species. We observed differences in germination among Boswellia species, among species and localities and among both years, which indicates that the development of seeds is strongly affected by external ecological factors. Although we noted a large variation in seed germination (relatively high in Boswellia socotrana), and half of the species showed relatively low mean daily germination, our study indicated that all endangered endemic Frankincense Tree taxa of Socotra harbor the potential for in situ conservation through recruitment, given that known impacts can be reduced in local replantation areas (e.g., grazing). MDPI 2022-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9182641/ /pubmed/35684190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11111418 Text en © 2022 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/).
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Hamdiah, Salem
Karas, Lukáš
Houšková, Kateřina
Van Damme, Kay
Attorre, Fabio
Vahalík, Petr
Habrová, Hana
Lvončík, Samuel
Eler, Klemen
Maděra, Petr
Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)
title Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)
title_full Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)
title_fullStr Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)
title_full_unstemmed Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)
title_short Seed Viability and Potential Germination Rate of Nine Endemic Boswellia Taxa (Burseraceae) from Socotra Island (Yemen)
title_sort seed viability and potential germination rate of nine endemic boswellia taxa (burseraceae) from socotra island (yemen)
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35684190
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11111418
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