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View article: The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation
The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation Open
Societal Impact Statement Seedbanks are vital for biodiversity conservation, but their potential remains underutilised due to a limited understanding of the intraspecific genetic diversity they hold. By leveraging digitised data associated…
Crop species diversity: A key strategy for sustainable food system transformation and climate resilience Open
The global food system's reliance on a few species threatens food and nutritional security. Species diversification, including indigenous species, is a viable option to address this issue. Diversity enhances food systems' resilience agains…
Supplmentary_data_Current status of global conservation and characterisation of wild and cultivated Brassicaceae genetic resources: a gap analysis Open
Data gathered for 1242 wild Brassicaeea species related to cultivated species. The data includes conservation status, ex situ conservation records, classification of crop wild relatives and crop related to, phyisio and phenotipic traits de…
Current status of global conservation and characterisation of wild and cultivated Brassicaceae genetic resources Open
Background The economic importance of the globally distributed Brassicaceae family resides in the large diversity of crops within the family and the substantial variety of agronomic and functional traits they possess. We reviewed the curre…
Supplementary data and Additional files for Castillo-Lorenzo et al., 2024_Current status of global conservation and characterisation of wild and cultivated Brassicaceae genetic resources. GigaScience. DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giae050 Open
This data is used in the article: Castillo-Lorenzo, Breman, Gomez Barreiro and Viruel (2024). Current status of global conservation and characterisation of wild and cultivated Brassicaceae genetic resources. GigaScience (DOI: 10.1093/gigas…
Multigenerational differences in harvesting and use of wild edible fruits and nuts in the South Caucasus Open
Societal Impact Statement Ecosystem services are underpinned by biodiversity, which is rapidly eroding globally, threatening rural livelihoods and culture. Examining the uses of wild edible plants (WEPs) that are important to rural communi…
View article: Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity
Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity Open
Societal Impact Statement Humankind is facing both climate and biodiversity crises. This article proposes the foundations of a scheme that offers tradable credits for combined aboveground and soil carbon and biodiversity. Multidiversity—as…
SOME MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIMODORUM ABORTIVUM (L.) SW. (ORCHIDACEAE) IN AZERBAIJAN Open
Limodorum abortivum is a threatened rhizomatous orchid species in Azerbaijan.In this study, we investigate the distribution areas of L. abortivum in the Great Caucasus mountains and the Talysh mountains within Azerbaijan, based on field su…
View article: Co-crediting system for carbon and biodiversity
Co-crediting system for carbon and biodiversity Open
Carbon crediting and land offsets for biodiversity protection are implemented to tackle the challenges of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and loss of global biodiversity, but these two mechanisms are not optimal when considered separat…
View article: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Synopsis of Coordinated National Crop Wild Relative Seed Collecting Programs across Five Continents Open
The Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Project set out to improve the diversity, quantity, and accessibility of germplasm collections of crop wild relatives (CWR). Between 2013 and 2018, partners in 25 countries, heirs to the globetrot…
Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank Open
There is a pressing need to conserve plant diversity to prevent extinctions and to enable sustainable use of plant material by current and future generations. Here, we review the contribution that living collections and seed banks based in…
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits Open
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives, many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly compensate for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which are a major cause…
View article: State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2020
State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2020 Open
Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi project provides assessments of our current knowledge of the diversity of plants and fungi on Earth, the global threats that they face, and the policies to safeguard them. Produced in conjunction…
International collaboration between collections‐based institutes for halting biodiversity loss and unlocking the useful properties of plants and fungi Open
Societal Impact Statement The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 calls for “strong global partnerships and cooperation” to support the other SDGs. The collections‐based science community offers many examples of conservat…
Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections Open
We reviewed the status of orthodox seed collections of globally threatened plants conserved in − 20 °C long-term storage at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK in terms of their geographic and bioclimatic representativ…
Ex situ conservation storage potential of Saxifraga cernua (Saxifragaceae) bulbils from alpine species Open
In high latitude and alpine environments many plants show an increase in viviparous reproduction in response to harsh environmental conditions. Low or no seed set means that ex situ conservation in the form of seed banking is not a conserv…
The conservation value of germplasm stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Open
The Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) Partnership, developed and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), conserves propagules primarily from orthodox seed-bearing wild vascular plants. It is the largest ex situ conservation programme…