How Pollination Ecology Can Improve Recovery of the Southeast’s Threatened Flowering Plants

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Gavin Shotts, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University Bashira Chowdhury, Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, Auburn University Producing seeds is critical to maintaining sustainable populations and adaptive genetic diversity for the Southeast’s threatened flowering plants. Seed production often depends on adequate pollination, which is a frequent concern for threatened plants, and addressing pollination problems […]

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Encephalartos heenanii – A Pollination Success Story

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Paul Mills, Ganna Walska Lotusland Ganna Walska Lotusland has many important plant collections, but none are more important from a conservation standpoint than the cycad collection. In the collection there are three mature individuals of Encephalartos heenanii which is now believed to be extinct in the wild. Ganna Walska Lotusland is working with the IUCN […]

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Curing Plant Blindness

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Kay Havens, Chicago Botanic Garden Plant conservation is promoted through outreach and advocacy. One way to cure plant blindness is by engaging the public in authentic research, as illustrated by the Bud Burst citizen science program. After 10 years of crowdsourcing phenology data, Bud Burst managers decided they could better engage the public by bringing them […]

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