Hawaii Archives - Center for Plant Conservation

May News 2022

Posted on May 9, 2022 (May 9, 2022) by Shannon Fowler

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Conservation Horticulture and Parental Controls

Posted on May 9, 2022 (March 16, 2023) by Shannon Fowler

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Conservation Champions: Lauren Weisenberger

Posted on May 7, 2022 (May 9, 2022) by Shannon Fowler

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Conservation Champion: James Kwon

Posted on April 2, 2022 (April 7, 2022) by Center for Plant Conservation

Photo of James Kwon in safety vest and hat with clear ocean water and sand bar in background.

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Supporting Lyon’s Hawaiian Rare Plant Program

Posted on February 2, 2022 (February 8, 2022) by Center for Plant Conservation

Floral close up of green petaled plant Diamon Head schiedea

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Seed Banking in Hawai’i through Changes and Challenges | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Posted on September 28, 2021 (October 1, 2021) by Center for Plant Conservation

Several pots of sprawling Na'ena'e plants on nursery benches.

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Laukahi’s 2020 Ex Situ Assessment: Measuring progress toward Target 8 of the Hawaiʻi Strategy for Plant Conservation

Emily Grave, Laukahi: The Hawaiʻi Plant Conservation Network Goals to conserve global biodiversity are achieved when local efforts coalesce around specific measurable objectives. The Laukahi Network is implementing the Hawaiʻi Strategy for Plant Conservation (HSPC) following the framework of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and adopting the targets most relevant to our needs. The HSPC […]

Seed viability Hawai‘i’s foundational-ʻōhi‘ trees linked environmental variables

Nina Rønsted, National Tropical Botanical Garden Climate can play a critical role in plant physiological processes at all life stages, but investigations into climate effects often focus on only adult life stages. However, climate can influence seed development and germination, which can in turn strongly affect community dynamics. Native Hawaiian Metrosideros spp. (Myrtaceae; ʻōhi‘a,; 13 […]

How Genomic Data Can Help Land Managers; Needs Identified by Hawai’ian Land Managers Working with Endangered Lobeliods

Screenshot of How Genomic Data Can Help Land Managers video

Dr. Jeremie Fant, Chicago Botanical Garden Many land managers are aware of the value of genetic data for making important decisions for the management of rare species. In the ever-expanding world of Genomics, practitioners now have access to more comprehensive and accurate data. However, the speed of change can make it hard to keep up […]

Cryobiotechnology for Conservation and Storage of Endangered Exceptional Hawaiian Plant Species

Megan Philpott, Valerie PenceL*, Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, United States *Speaker Threats to global plant biodiversity compel the need for ex situ collections of species worldwide. However, the subset of species known as exceptional plants are often overlooked. These species produce few or no seeds or produce recalcitrant seeds. The Center for Conservation and […]

Responses of Papaya Seeds (Carica papaya) During Short and Long Term Storage at Sub-zero Conditions

Christina Walters, Jennifer Crane, Lisa Hill, United States Department of Agriculture., USDA-ARS Seeds of papaya (Carica papaya) are tolerant to desiccation, but they are quickly damaged when stored at -5 to -20C. The seeds have a high lipid content that reflect “tropical oils,” which are high in saturated and mono-unsaturated fatty acids. Differential Scanning Calorimetry […]

Nellie Sugii at the Lyon Arboretum Micropropagation Lab

Nellie Sugii, a key partner in the part of the collaboration focused on Hawaiian species, stands in her new micropropagation lab at Lyon Arboretum. […]

Cryotank at the CREW CryoBioBank

CREW’s CryoBioBank, where samples, such as those from Hawaii, will be stored. […]

Revealing the Details of Hawaiian Seeds Through Microscope Photography

Tim Kroessig, Harold L. Lyon Arboretum The Hawaiian flora represents ~45% of all plants listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened or endangered. The Lyon Arboretum’s Seed Conservation Laboratory (Lyon S.C.L.) conserves many of these imperiled plants through conventional seed banking. However, the seeds of many rare Hawaiian plants have never been […]

Honolulu Botanical Gardens current and future role within a robust conservation community

Talia Portner, Honolulu Botanical Gardens Hawaii has approximately 1400 native plant species of which more than 90% are found nowhere else in the world. However, at least 30% of these species are endangered and 100 have already gone extinct due to land use change, ongoing pressure from introduced species, and the loss of pollinators and […]

E Mau ana Ka ‘Ohl’a – Perpetuating ‘Ohi’a

New fungal pathogens are threatening the most ecologically and culturally important native tree in Hawai‘i, ‘ōhi‘a (Metrosideros spp.).

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Using a zoo model to conserve genetic diversity of critically endangered species ex situ

Jordan Wood, Jeremie Fant, Andrea Kramer and Kay Havens, Chicago Botanic Garden Genetics becomes important whenever populations become small (<100). This includes loss o fgenetic diversity from drift, increased expression of deleterious genes due to inbreeding, and limiting local adaptation. Since many species of plants are able to be seed banked, it is possible to […]

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