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The Global Seed Conservation Challenge is managed by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). It aims to:
Engage more botanic gardens to become involved in seed banking, working ‘outside the garden walls’...
- Type: Project
- Biodiversity Botanic garden Collections Conservation Ex situ Genebanks Seed Network
The International Plant Sentinel Network (IPSN) has been developed by Botanic Gardens Conservation International to facilitate collaboration amongst institutes around the world, with a focus on linking botanic gardens...
- Type: Project
- Biodiversity Botanic garden Collections Network Trees Pests and diseases
PlantSearch is a database of living plant, seed and tissue collections held by botanic gardens and arboreta around the world.
It includes over 1.5 million collection records from more than 1,000 contributing...
- Type: Database
- Collections Botanic garden Crop Wild Relatives Seed Ex situ Conservation Biodiversity
This video shows how the large collection of seeds at the Millenium Seed Bank is stored and studied. Many of the seeds grown and propagated by the scientists make it out into the Kew´s botanic garden.
- Type: Multimedia
- Botany Botanic garden Biodiversity Reintroduction Ex situ Conservation Seed Bank
Many crop wild realtives (CWRs) are underrepresented in crop gene banks. With at least one-third of known plant species maintained in botanic garden living collections, the botanic garden community serves as an important...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Crops Genebanks Crop Wild Relatives Botanic garden Genetic research Ex situ Conservation
