The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership represents the largest and most ambitious ex situ plant conservation initiative in the world. Today more than 20% of our plant species are faced with the threat o...

Leaders from the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Property Environmental Research Center argue that prioritizing plant species recovery would drive record gains for other wildlife at lower cost and wi...

In Defense of Plants' Matt Candeias talks with the Center for Plant Conservation's Dr. Dustin Wolkis about their pollen and seed banking efforts.

Ex situ seed conservation is an essential tool in our efforts to conserve wild and cultivated plant diversity, as mentioned in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and the Sustainable Developme...

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...

The Forest Service is looking to close its Big Island labs — the only ones of their kind, researchers say, that help protect the Pacific's unique tropical forests.

The Center for Plant Conservation is a network of plant conservationists from plant-focused organizations dedicated to protecting rare plants from extinction.

When seed saving doesn’t work, pollen may be the answer to preserving botanical heritage.

The Journal of Lost Species (JLS) is a peer-reviewed record of the ongoing mass extinction event. Our goals are to advance scientific understanding of extinction, support the development of methods fo...

A corpse flower plant on Kauai is about to bloom for the very first time

Coastal dune plants provide critical ecosystem and cultural services, which are severely threatened by ongoing climate change and sea-level rise. Coastal habitats account for a disproportionate extent...

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By Dr. Dustin Wolkis, Scientific Curator of Seed Conservation One of NTBG’s core activities is […]

With funding and faculty support from Willamette, Laulea Miike BS’27 conducts essential conservation research on her home island.

Seed longevity: analysing post-storage germination data in R to fit the viability equation

Botany One interviews Dr Dustin Wolkis, a passionate for seed conservation working in one of the most biodiverse yet...

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Botany One interviews Dr Dustin Wolkis, a passionate for seed conservation working in one of the most biodiverse yet endangered islands.

Botany One interviews Dr. Karen Sommerville and her current research that aims to conserve Australian Rainforest plants.

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

Seed longevity: analysing post-storage germination data in R to fit the viability equation