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

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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Main Authors: Elinor Breman, Daniel Ballesteros, Elena Castillo-Lorenzo, Christopher Cockel, John Dickie, Aisyah Faruk, Katherine O’Donnell, Catherine A. Offord, Samuel Pironon, Suzanne Sharrock, Tiziana Ulian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Plants
Subjects:
biodiversity
long-term conservation
plant populations
strategic collecting
exceptional species
collection quality
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/11/2371

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