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Saving All Flowers From Extinction
Maintaining their habitats is the ideal, but as insurance, many species can also be backed up by seed banking, to provide materials to grow the plants and restore populations in case they are lost in the wild. However, seed banking can be lethal or unworkable for many species. How do we provide a back-up for those? This talk will describe work with cryobiotechnologies, or methods for conserving plant tissues at extremely low temperatures in liquid nitrogen in cryo-banks. Work at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden's CREW is focused on developing such methods to use with these exceptional plant species, such as endangered oaks, and storing them in our Frozen Garden to ensure that they are preserved for the future.
Dr. Valerie C. Pence is the Director of Plant Research at the Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Her work focuses on applying in vitro methods and cryobiotechnologies to the conservation of plant species that cannot be conserved in conventional seed banks, species known as exceptional species.
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