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Save Plants: March 2024 Newsletter
![Quercus dumosa in flower. Photo by Caroline Iacuaniello](https://saveplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/IMG_4618-1024x683.jpg)
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Quercus dumosa, or Nuttall’s scrub oak, is endangered due to human encroachment, misidentification, disease, and wildfire. Micropropagation is a method of ex situ conservation in which plants maybe be preserved under aseptic conditions away from the many threats they face. However, each genotype grows differently; what may encourage growth in one individual may prove lethal […]
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This is a tall shoot tip with lots of callous […]
at Los Penasquitos Canyon, San Diego County […]
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance postdoc, Dr. Joe Ree, presented some of his work with Quercus dumosa at the 2021 Channel Islands and California Native Oak Workshop. Dr. Ree is working with tissue cultures to try and establish a method of propagating this rare scrub oak. He hopes to further preserve the tissues using cryopreservation […]
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