{"id":80304,"date":"2018-05-25T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T01:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=80304"},"modified":"2019-03-25T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:01:25","slug":"native-seed-conservation-lyon-arboretum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/25\/native-seed-conservation-lyon-arboretum\/","title":{"rendered":"Native seed conservation practices explored at Lyon Arboretum"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Adam Williams assessing a germination test on native Hawaiian seeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Lyon Arboretum<\/a> co-hosted the second Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Native Seed Conference for conservationists, horticulturalists, researchers and others working with seeds of native Hawaiian plants.<\/p>\n

More than 80 people, including UH<\/abbr> students, attended and were trained in best practices for seed collection, banking and conservation by staff from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Millennium Seed Bank, in West Sussex, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

“I was most impressed by the keynote presentations from Ruth Bone and Rachael Davies from Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank,” said Amy Hruska<\/strong>, a UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa doctoral candidate in botany. “I certainly learned a lot about best practices for seed collection and storage, developing conservation partnerships and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>‘s own seed bank partnership. This information, particularly the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> specific information, will help with germination experiments I am conducting with native Hawaiian plant species.”<\/p>\n

International knowledge<\/h2>\n

Conference workshop topics include germination and breaking dormancy, optimal harvest time and seed collection methods, post-harvesting and processing. New research and knowledge was shared from multiple Hawaiian Islands, the U.S. mainland, New Zealand, China and the U.K.<\/p>\n

“We were thrilled to see folks representing so many agencies and institutions—within and outside Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>—as well as many UH<\/abbr> students, gathered together to learn and share knowledge about how seeds are used in ecological restoration and research,” said Seed Conservation Laboratory Manager Marian Chau<\/strong>. “Native seed conservation in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is at an inspiring stage of expansion, and we are happy that our conference could facilitate this growth.”<\/p>\n

The conference focused on conservation efforts in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. New research and conservation priorities were identified, and the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Seed Bank Partnership, which has grown to include 60 members representing more than 25 agencies, introduced its upcoming Seed Bank User\u2019s Guide and associated publications in 2018.<\/p>\n

“Another topic I found fascinating was a presentation on the struggles the indigenous people of Aotearoa are facing with regards to being excluded from the decision-making process of conservation projects,” said arboretum student assistant Dylan Pilger<\/strong> from Honolulu Community College. “I hope to learn more about this in the future, because I feel it also has important implications for the conservation work we do here in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conference brought together conservationists, horticulturalists and researchers from Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> the U.S. mainland, New Zealand, China and the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[665,62,192,9],"class_list":["post-80304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-conservation","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-lyon-arboretum","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80304","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=80304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80310,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80304\/revisions\/80310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}