What to do when we can't bank on seeds: What botanic gardens can learn from the zoo community about conserving plants in living collections

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Plant Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois 60035 USA.
• ² Department of Plant Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois 60035 USA [email protected].
• ³ Department of Science and Conservation, National Tropical Botanical Garden, 3530 Papalina Road, Kalāheo, Hawai'i 96741 USA.
• ⁴ Department of Conservation Science, Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield, Illinois 60513 USA.
• ⁵ International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University and the National Tropical Botanic Garden, The Kampong, 4013 South Douglas Road, Coconut Grove, Florida 33133 USA.
• ⁶ Botanic Gardens Conservation International, 199 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3BW UK.