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Celebrating Four Years of the CPC Rare Plant Academy

Posted on December 1, 2022 (December 2, 2022) by Shannon Fowler

Image of Long's rockcress (Braya longii).

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Updates to the Missouri Botanical Garden Seed Bank

Meg Engelhardt, Missouri Botanical Garden As a founding member of the CPC, the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) has been seed banking for decades. The seed bank contains three core collections resulting from MBG’s global field programs in plant conservation, horticulture, and ethnobotany. It currently holds over 2,400 accessions of orthodox seeds representing 1,190 different species, of […]

Reaping what we’ve sown: Using long-term seed collections for novel seed conservation research

Posted on February 19, 2021 (February 26, 2021) by Caroline Iacuaniello

Image of a caterpillar on Bradshaw's lomatium.

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Conserving Genetic Diversity of Southeastern Oaks and Magnolias in Botanic Gardens: How Much is Needed?

Dr. Sean Hoban, The Morton Arboretum, Taylor Callicrate, Species Conservation Toolkit Initiative, Chicago Zoological Society, Susan Deans, Plant Biology and Conservation Program, Northwestern University, Michael Dosmann, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jeremie Fant, Chicago Botanic Garden, Oliver Gailing, University of Göttingen, Kayri Havens, Chicago Botanic Garden, Andrew Hipp, The Morton Arboretum, Priyanka Kadav, Michigan […]

Labeling Plants in Dunes

Jennifer Possley, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Since coastal dunes have constantly shifting sands, tracking individual plants over many years can be challenging. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden began working with a federally endangered plant called Beach Clustervine in the late 1990s. This long-lived species grows only in the coastal strand area of coastal dune communities in four […]

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