The alarming current and predicted species extinction rates have galvanized
conservationists in their efforts to avoid future biodiversity losses, but for species extinct in …

Ex situ conservation is widely used to protect wild plant species from extinction. However, it
remains unclear how genetic variation of ex situ plant collections reflects diversity of wild …

Ongoing global warming, coupled with increased drought frequencies, together with other
biotic drivers may have resulted in complex evolutionary adaptation. The resurrection …

Conservation biologists have drawn up a range of guidelines for the conservation of genetic
diversity—to maximise the chances that populations of threatened species persist, and to …

Human disturbance and climate change have increased the risk of extinction for rare and
endangered wild plant species. One effective way to conserve these rare and endangered …

Premise of research. To safeguard threatened plant species, best-practice guidelines and
genetic modeling emphasize that ex situ collections should be composed of high numbers of …

Maintaining a living plant collection is the most common method of ex situ conservation for
plant species that cannot be seed banked (ie, exceptional species). Viability of living …

The conservation of rare plant species as living collections in botanic gardens and arboreta
has become an established tool in the battle against worldwide species' extinctions …

The growing number of restoration projects worldwide increases the demand for seed
material of native species. To meet this demand, seeds are often produced through large …

Most plant conservation strategies generally overlook the intra-specific genetic diversity of
crop gene pools. Focusing on forage crops and their wild relatives, we present a novel …