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1. The role of botanical gardens in scientific research, conservation, and citizen science
August 2018
Gao Chen | Weibang Sun
Plant diversity is currently being lost at an unprecedented rate, resulting in an associated decrease in ecosystem services. About a third of the world's vascular plant species face the threat of extinction...
2. Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation needs
February 2016
Richard T. Corlett
The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency—or the funding—that drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us. There are an estimated 500,000...
3. Physiological diversity of orchids
August 2018
Shibao Zhang | Yingjie Yang | Jiawei Li | Jiao Qin | Wei Zhang | Wei Huang | Hong Hu
The Orchidaceae is a diverse and wide spread family of flowering plants that are of great value in ornamental, medical, conservation, and evolutionary research. The broad diversity in morphology, growth...
4. ROS and oxidative burst: Roots in plant development
February 2020
Anuj Choudhary | Antul Kumar | Nirmaljit Kaur
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are widely generated in various redox reactions in plants. In earlier studies, ROS were considered toxic byproducts of aerobic metabolism. In recent years, it has become...
5. Effect of salinity on seed germination, growth and ion content in dimorphic seeds of Salicornia europaea L. (Chenopodiaceae)
August 2016
Nikolai Orlovsky | Ulbasyn Japakova | Huifan Zhang | Sergei Volis
The halophyte Salicornia europaea L. is a widely distributed salt-tolerant plant species that produces numerous dimorphic seeds. We studied germination and recovery in dimorphic seeds of Central Asian...
6. Diversity and conservation of Chinese wild begonias
June 2018
Daike Tian | Yan Xiao | Yi Tong | Naifeng Fu | Qingqing Liu | Chun Li
Begonia, one of the most diverse plant taxa and the fifth or sixth largest angiosperm genus, consists of over 1800 accepted species. The number of species recognized within this genus has greatly increased...
7. Tibet, the Himalaya, Asian monsoons and biodiversity – In what ways are they related?
October 2017
Robert A. Spicer
Prevailing dogma asserts that the uplift of Tibet, the onset of the Asian monsoon system and high biodiversity in southern Asia are linked, and that all occurred after 23 million years ago in the Neogene....
8. Plant conservation in the Anthropocene – Challenges and future prospects
December 2017
Vernon H. Heywood
Despite the massive efforts that have been made to conserve plant diversity across the world during the past few decades, it is becoming increasingly evident that our current strategies are not sufficiently...
9. The contribution of botanic gardens to ex situ conservation through seed banking
December 2017
Katherine O'Donnell | Suzanne Sharrock
Target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation calls for ‘at least 75 per cent of threatened plant species in ex situ collections, preferably in the country of origin, and at least 20 per cent...
10. Revision of Senegalia in China, and notes on introduced species of Acacia, Acaciella, Senegalia and Vachellia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)
December 2019
Bruce R. Maslin | Boon Chuan Ho | Hang Sun | Lin Bai
The present work represents the first comprehensive taxonomic revision of Acacia sens. lat. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in China, focusing on the indigenous species. Critical reassessments of specimens...
11. Conserving plants within and beyond protected areas – still problematic and future uncertain
April 2019
Vernon H. Heywood
Against a background of continuing loss of biodiversity, it is argued that for the successful conservation of threatened plant species we need to ensure the more effective integration of the various...
12. Conservation-oriented restoration – a two for one method to restore both threatened species and their habitats
April 2019
Sergei Volis
There is an urgent need for a new conservation approach as mere designation of protected areas, the primary approach to conserving biodiversity, revealed its low conservation efficiency and inability...
13. Pollination ecology in China from 1977 to 2017
August 2018
Zongxin Ren | Yanhui Zhao | Huan Liang | Zhibin Tao | Hui Tang | Haiping Zhang | Hong Wang
China is one of most biodiverse countries in the world, containing at least 10% of all angiosperm species. Therefore, we should anticipate a diverse, pollinator fauna. China also has a long history...
14. Botanic gardens should lead the way to create a “Garden Earth” in the Anthropocene
December 2017
Charles H. Cannon | Chai-Shian Kua
The strength and expertise that botanic gardens bring to conservation are based on their detailed knowledge and understanding of the care, management, and biology of a diversity of plant species. This...
15. Recovery of threatened plant species and their habitats in the biodiversity hotspot of the Southwest Australian Floristic Region
April 2019
Leonie Monks | Sarah Barrett | Brett Beecham | Margaret Byrne | Alanna Chant | David Coates | J. Anne Cochrane | Andrew Crawford | Rebecca Dillon | Colin Yates
The Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is a global biodiversity hotspot with high plant diversity and endemism and a broad range of threatening processes. An outcome of this is a high proportion...
16. Current understanding of maize and rice defense against insect herbivores
August 2018
Jinfeng Qi | Saif ul Malook | Guojing Shen | Lei Gao | Cuiping Zhang | Jing Li | Jingxiong Zhang | Lei Wang | Jianqiang Wu
Plants have sophisticated defense systems to fend off insect herbivores. How plants defend against herbivores in dicotyledonous plants, such as Arabidopsis and tobacco, have been relatively well studied,...
17. Plant diversity of the Kangchenjunga Landscape, Eastern Himalayas
June 2019
Pratikshya Kandel | Nakul Chettri | Ram P. Chaudhary | Hemant Kumar Badola | Kailash S. Gaira | Sonam Wangchuk | Namgay Bidha | Yadav Uprety | Eklabya Sharma
The Kangchenjunga Landscape (KL) in the Eastern Himalayas is a transboundary complex shared by Bhutan, India, and Nepal. It forms a part of the ‘Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot’ and is one of the biologically...
18. Strong intraspecific trait variation in a tropical dominant tree species along an elevational gradient
February 2020
Wumei Xu | Kyle W. Tomlinson | Jie Li
Functional trait variation of plant species includes both inter- and intraspecific variation; however, trait-based plant ecology generally considers only interspecific variation while ignoring intraspecific...
19. Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Clues into leaf-like flower mutant in Chinese orchid Cymbidium ensifolium
April 2020
Yonglu Wei | Jianpeng Jin | Xiani Yao | Chuqiao Lu | Genfa Zhu | Fengxi Yang
The floral morphology of Cymbidium ensifolium, a well-known orchid in China, has increasingly attracted horticultural and commercial attention. However, the molecular mechanisms that regulate flower...
20. History and conservation of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda: Forest species and banana varieties as case studies
February 2016
Alan C. Hamilton | Deborah Karamura | Esezah Kakudidi
The history of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda is reviewed, taking forest species and bananas as examples. Palynological research into past human influences on forests is reassessed. The...
21. How to conserve threatened Chinese plant species with extremely small populations?
February 2016
Sergei Volis
The Chinese flora occupies a unique position in global plant diversity, but is severely threatened. Although biodiversity conservation in China has made significant progress over the past decades, many...
22. A comparison of different methods for preserving plant molecular materials and the effect of degraded DNA on ddRAD sequencing
June 2018
Ying Guo | GuoQian Yang | Yunmei Chen | Dezhu Li | Zhenhua Guo
Obtaining high-quality plant materials for experiments is challenging for many research projects. Therefore, it is of special importance to determine the best method for preserving biological macromolecules...
23. Adapting the botanical landscape of Melbourne Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria) in response to climate change
December 2017
Timothy J. Entwisle | Chris Cole | Peter Symes
Botanic gardens around the world maintain collections of living plants for science, conservation, education, beauty and more. These collections change over time – in scope and content – but the predicted...
24. Capturing, protecting and restoring plant diversity in the UK: RBG Kew and the Millennium Seed Bank
April 2019
Ted Chapman | Stephanie Miles | Clare Trivedi
Ex situ seed banking is a practical and cost-effective means of preserving wild plant diversity and a crucial complement to the in situ conservation and restoration of species and habitats. As pressures...
25. Center for Plant Conservation's Best Practice Guidelines for the reintroduction of rare plants
December 2017
Joyce Maschinski | Matthew A. Albrecht
Recent estimates indicate that one-fifth of botanical species worldwide are considered at risk of becoming extinct in the wild. One available strategy for conserving many rare plant species is reintroduction,...
