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2023
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Can seed banking assist in conserving the highly endemic New Zealand indigenous flora?.
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2021
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2021
Journal article
Seed Banks as Incidental Fungi Banks: Fungal Endophyte Diversity in Stored Seeds of Banana Wild Relatives.
Hill, Rowena ; Llewellyn, Theo ; Downes, Elizabeth ; Oddy, Joseph ; MacIntosh, Catriona …
Endophytic fungi, Musa, Banana, Seed banking, Fusarium, Crop wild relatives, and Seed mycobiome
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2020
Journal article
Trade‐off between seed dispersal in space and time.
Seed movement and delayed germination have long been thought to represent alternative risk‐spreading strategies, but current evidence covers limited scales and yields mixed results. Here we present the first global‐scale test of a negative correlation between dispersal and dormancy. The result demonstrates a strong and consistent pattern that species with...Chen, Si‐Chong ; Poschlod, Peter ; Antonelli, Alexandre ; Liu, Udayangani ; Dickie, John B.
Annual , Longevity, Lifespan, Seed dispersal, Seed bank, Dormancy, Germination, Perennial, and Iteroparity
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2020
Journal article
Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections
We reviewed the status of orthodox seed collections of globally threatened plants conserved in − 20 °C long-term storage at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK in terms of their geographic and bioclimatic representativeness, taxonomic and genetic diversity, quality and physiological status. The comprehensive dataset used spans...