[PCA] ARTICLE: 'Test tube trees': An insurance policy against extinction?

[Prescott, Leah]

From: BBC News
By: Helen Briggs
November 3, 2018

"The seedling of the mighty oak has had an unusual start in life.

Raised using techniques pioneered in fertility labs, it is the product of
new efforts to preserve the seeds of wild plants.

The world is losing plants at an unprecedented rate, with about one in five
thought to be at risk of extinction.

"It's an insurance policy against extinction in the wild," says Dr John
Dickie of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst in West Sussex."

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46065156

-- 
Leah Prescott
Bureau of Land Management
Plant Conservation & Restoration Program
Data Coordinator
202-912-7232

National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy>
Plant Conservation Alliance <http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/>
Seeds of Success
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection>
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