{"id":46727,"date":"2016-06-07T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=46727"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:16:48","slug":"new-lyon-arboretum-laboratory-will-expand-hawaiian-plant-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/07\/new-lyon-arboretum-laboratory-will-expand-hawaiian-plant-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lyon Arboretum laboratory will expand Hawaiian plant conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGQgYvo4GdA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>With more than 400 federally endangered or threatened plants, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is considered an &ldquo;endangered species hotspot.&rdquo; This means the tissue culture work of the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyonarboretum\/research\/conservation\/hrpp\/micropropagation-laboratory-hawaiian-rare-plant-program\/\">Hawaiian Rare Plant Program Micropropagation Laboratory<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyonarboretum\/\">Lyon Arboretum<\/a> is critical.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you lose one species it&#8217;s going to be a ripple effect,&rdquo; said <strong>Erin King<\/strong>, a Hawaiian Rare Plant Program student assistant from <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa<\/a> who works at the laboratory. &ldquo;You are going to lose the bugs the birds, and all the other things that depend on this one native plant that might not seem important, but for all these other species, it&#8217;s very important.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Bontanical support student assistant <strong>Keoni Kikala<\/strong> from <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a>, likens rare plant species to the rivets holding an airplane together. &ldquo;You&#8217;ll never know when you will lose that one component where it will all fall apart,&rdquo; he cautioned.<\/p>\n<h2>New facility critical for native plant preservation<\/h2>\n<p>This important program is currently housed in an almost 100-year-old building that is termite ridden. Because it holds important rare plant cultures, the structure can&#8217;t be fumigated, so staff has resorted to plugging termite holes with coins and calk.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is construction is underway for a new $2.5-million facility that will expand the arboretum&#8217;s important efforts to store, propagate and eventually restore many of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s native plants that are in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It really ensures that we can safeguard some of this germplasm for the future, when there are available sites for restoration,&rdquo; said <strong>Nellie Sugii<\/strong>, Hawaiian Rare Plant Program manager. &ldquo;We can withdraw some of these plants and put them back into the wild.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46795\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-arboretum-plant-lab-kikala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-arboretum-plant-lab-kikala.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-arboretum-plant-lab-kikala-260x159.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keoni Kikala, a botanical support student assistant,  in the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program Micropropagation Laboratory in the Lyon Arboretum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The construction of the new laboratory facilities will double the growing space for the current lab&#8217;s 20,000-plus plants and provide greater public access to this unique program. The design of the new laboratory will also allow for non-obtrusive public viewing into the research facility.<\/p>\n<p>It is being called a model public-private partnership, after receiving funding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hauolimauloa.org\/\">span aria-label=&#8221;Hauoli&#8221;>Hau&#699;oli Mau Loa Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cffoundation.net\/\">Chamberlin Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookefdn.org\/\">Cooke Foundation<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoflyon.com\/\">Friends of Lyon Arboretum<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Legislature<\/a> and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is one of the most important bridges that we build from the university to the community,&rdquo; noted University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa Chancellor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/chancellor\/\">Robert Bley-Vroman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the micropropagation laboratory is expected to be completed in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction is underway for the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program Micropropagation Laboratory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":46822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[368,192,731,9,56],"class_list":["post-46727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-botany","tag-lyon-arboretum","tag-plants","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-arboretum-plant-lab-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46727"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124716,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46727\/revisions\/124716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}