{"id":64572,"date":"2017-09-04T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=64572"},"modified":"2019-03-11T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:50:24","slug":"ohia-seed-banking-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/04\/ohia-seed-banking-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyon Arboretum leads Rapid \u02bb\u014chi\u02bba Death Seed Banking Initiative"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_64634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64634\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-1-260x168.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014chi&#699;a<\/span> lehua blossoms over the Koolau mountains, <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyonarboretum\/\">Lyon Arboretum<\/a> will be leading efforts to expand capacity for collection and banking of <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seeds across all islands in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/rod\/Home.aspx\">Rapid <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014chi&#699;a<\/span> Death<\/a> (ROD) crisis. With funding from the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tourism Authority (HTA), Lyon Arboretum is spearheading the <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoflyon.com\/rod-seed-banking-initiative\/\">Rapid <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014chi&#699;a<\/span> Death Seed Banking Initiative<\/a>, a new project that builds on the momentum of #OhiaLove.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/07\/seeding-the-future-of-the-ohia-tree\/\">Seeding the future of the <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> tree<\/a>, February 7, 2016 <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/27\/campaign-to-conserve-ohia-trees-finds-roots-in-community\/\">Campaign to conserve <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> trees finds roots in community<\/a>, April 27, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rapid Ohia Death\">ROD<\/abbr> Seed Banking Initiative has two parts:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64633\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-seed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-seed.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-seed-252x260.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close up of <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seeds, ready to harvest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Community involvement in <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seed conservation<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Seed Bank Partnership developed seed collection protocols and a statewide collection strategy for <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span>. With this structure in place, the partnership can expand its efforts and scale up seed collection&#8212;with the public\u2019s help.<\/p>\n<p>The arboretum will be offering <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoflyon.com\/ohia-workshops\/\"><span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seed conservation workshops<\/a> on each island, free of charge and open to the local community. The worshops provide training on how to properly collect, handle and process <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seeds, without doing harm to trees or forests, using methods that protect seed viability and ensure conservation value for future restoration.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Hawaii Tourism Authority\">HTA<\/abbr> funding also supports emergency seed banking of these <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seeds at facilities on multiple islands.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Rare plant conservation on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The core partner of Lyon\u2019s Hawaiian Rare Plant Program is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepphi.org\/\">Plant Extinction Prevention Program<\/a> (PEPP), which works with the rarest of the rare: species with less than 50 individual plants remaining in the wild. There are 40 <abbr title=\"Plant Extinction Prevention Program\">PEPP<\/abbr> species on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island, where severe habitat alteration by <abbr title=\u201cRapid Ohia Death\u201c>ROD<\/abbr> could have devastating effects on rare plant populations.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for <abbr title=\"Plant Extinction Prevention Program\">PEPP<\/abbr> to rapidly collect seeds from as many remaining rare plants as possible and secure them at Lyon\u2019s Seed Conservation Lab. Funds are supporting increased <abbr>PEPP<\/abbr> collections on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island and storage of those seeds at Lyon Arboretum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64635\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-collecting-seed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-collecting-seed.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-collecting-seed-260x165.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keoni Kikala, student employee at Lyon Arboretum, collecting <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyon Arboretum will expanding its capacity for collection and banking of <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;\u014dhi&#699;a<\/span> seeds across all islands in response to the Rapid \u02bb\u014chi\u02bba Death (ROD) crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":64634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[665,192,731,1018,9],"class_list":["post-64572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-conservation","tag-lyon-arboretum","tag-plants","tag-rapid-ohia-death","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arboreum-ohia-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572","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=64572"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76546,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions\/76546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}