🎉Congrats to National Tropical Botanical Garden Seed Lab Intern & Willamette University undergrad Laulea Miike for presenting pollen research results! 💮Hōlei (Ochrosia kauaiensis; #Apocynaceae; IUCN Red List CR) pollen germination was highest at 35% sucrose & 25-35°C. Longevity at varying MCs & temps are up next!

Joining IBC2024 #ibc2024 and interested in #biodiversity conservation of seeds? We welcome you to attend our double symposium, "Advances in Seed Conservation of Wild Species" this Monday! Session I ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php?secc… Session II ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php?secc…

Today I talked about dry #seed architectures promoting fast ageing at IBC2024. Here I presented the latest studies made by some of my former MSc and PhD students @KewScience. They made a great job that is moving seed science forward. Congrats.

What a fantastic lineup of expert speakers we were honored to convene at our #IBC2024 seed conservation symposium! The talks, all enlightening, covered diverse topics. The discussions that ensued were stimulating and fruitful. Con mucho #PlantJoy, muchas gracias IBC2024!

The Global Oak Pollen Bank has been presented at #IBC2024 thanks to the hard work made by students like Jose Canon and the funding of the International Oak Society

Read the latest research from NTBG #Science & #Conservation staff Dustin Wolkis, Seana Walsh and our partners at Chicago Botanic Garden, et al. in "Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity" published with Springer Nature in Nature Plants rdcu.be/dOVbl

seed4restoration @thesmalloak My office this week is #IBC2024! I co-organized a symposium on seed conservation with the amazing seed bankers @AlexSeglias and Dustin Wolkis. Thanks to all of the fantastic researchers who presented on their seed work! 🌰💚

The IBC2024 #IBC2024 marathon has concluded. Cochaired a conservation #SeedScience symposium w/ Jessamine Finch, PhD & @AlexSeglias. Presented work from National Tropical Botanical Garden related to pollen conservation then seed salinity on the first and last days. Connected with colleagues. What a week! 🌰🌱

New Correspondence: "Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity" rdcu.be/dPpqK

Big mahalo to Smithsonian NMNH for inviting myself and colleagues from Botanic Gardens Conservation International-US, National Tropical Botanical Garden, San Diego Botanic Garden, State Botanic Garden of GA, & KewGardens to present at the 21st Smithsonian Botanical Symposium in DC! 🌺The event highlighted #PlantConservation! 🌰 Read/watch @ nmnh.typepad.com/the_plant_press

Our Scientific Curator of Seed Conservation Dustin Wolkis recently gave a presentation on seed banking and conservation in #Hawaii at the @Smithsonian #Botanical Symposium. Full of great info, you can watch/read at: youtu.be/KLk2AOZAAy0?si… with more at: nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol27no3…

Out now in Botanical Society of America's APPS with Bruce Baldwin & Susan Fawcett; "Embryo excision in Compositae, with implications for combating biodiversity loss" 🌱We describe and illustrate a detailed method of embryo excision which can aid conservation efforts. doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1…

Embryo excision in Compositae, with implications for combating biodiversity loss New in #AppsPlantSci by Bruce Baldwin, Susan Fawcett & Dustin Wolkis bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley National Tropical Botanical Garden Wiley Plant Science #PlantConservation #SeedBank #botany #Asteraceae #PlantJoy

Editor Anurag Dhyani was recently awarded the Global Seed Conservation Challenge award at the 8th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Singapore, in recognition of his work to conserve the most threatened plant species. Congratulations ANURAG DHYANI! Botanic Gardens Conservation International IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group @Kew_MSBUK

Honored to receive the Global Seed Conservation Award at the 8th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Singapore! Grateful to Botanic Gardens Conservation International @Kew_MSBUK IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group for this recognition Special Thanks Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐

#ResearchHighlights: 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘢 (Rubiaceae) seed conservation physiology with emphasis on rare Hawaiian species 🫘 🌱Mike Opgenorth @NinaRonsted #SeedConservation #TropicalEcosystems Dustin Wolkis doi.org/10.5091/plecev…

In National Tropical Botanical Garden McBryde Garden Susan Fawcett explains the collection #Pritchardia morphometrics for taxonomic study while Tim Kroessig (Lyon Arboretum) & Jena Osmani (National Tropical Botanical Garden) assist University of Hawaii at Manoa student Makoa Elgin with his MS pollination ecology research on the genus. 🌴Palm #PlantJoy 🌴

🎃 In the spirit of #Halloween here are some images Kou (Cordia subcordata; #Boraginaceae) fruit (drupe) stony endocarp. 🌰 Fruit are 4 locular with one #seed per locule. "Eye holes" appear as empty locules. 🌱 Kou is a canoe plant & indigenous in #Hawaiʻi.

🌸Paper alert🌸 Excited to share our latest work on pollen temperature tolerance (PTL) across various climates, growth forms and phylogenies! We explore the temperature limits (Tmin, Topt, Tmax) of 191 plant species critical to plant reproduction under climate change. 1/7

I’ve decided to move from X to Bluesky, a platform that better aligns with my values and goals. Grateful for the connections here! Find me on Bluesky Dustin Wolkis #GoodbyeX