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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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