Banana genus Musa L. (Musaceae) in the collections of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden BIN RAS is grown 7 species and four cultivars of the genus (all from Musa acuminata).
The very first grown ...one is Musa acuminata (Musaceae), this species has been grown in the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the BIN RAS since 1932. The original seeds were obtained from the Botanical Garden of Hamburg (Germany). The plants were preserved during the Second World War. Plants bear fruit almost every year. Seeds in fruits are tied and ripen. Laboratory germination of freshly harvested seeds is 64-73%.
Musa huangbaoia has been in the collection of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden since 2016. It does not bear fruit regularly. Some individuals behave like monocarpics; after fruiting they die off without forming lateral buds.
Freshly harvested Musa mannii seeds begin to germinate in Petri dishes at 15-20 days. Germination is not friendly, stretched. Laboratory germination reaches 15-20%.
The position that banana seeds quickly lose their germination capacity has been confirmed. The presence of fruit-bearing species of the genus Musa allows them to be included in the "Index seminum".
A list of seeds of cultivated plants collected in 2017-2018 at the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute, offered for exchange with other botanical gardens and institutions.
A list of seeds of cultural plants, collected in 2016 at the Botanical Garden of the Syktyvkar State University named after Pitirim Sorokin. We offer the seeds to botanical gardens and other ...organisations for exchange.
The list shows the seeds of plants cultivated in the open ground and greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Science and of those collected in nature.
The list contains the names of plants whose seeds N.V. Bagrov BOTANIC GARDEN of Tavrida Academy of Crimean federal V.I.Vernadsky university offers for exchange with other Botaniсal gardens and ...institutions of Russia and the world.
Botanic gardens have been exchanging seeds through seed catalogues for centuries. In many gardens, these catalogues remain an important source of plant material. Living collections have become more ...relevant for genetic analysis and derived research, since genomics of non-model organisms heavily rely on living material. The range of species that is made available annually on all seed lists combined, provides an unsurpassed source of instantly accessible plant material for research collections. Still, the Index Seminum has received criticism in the past few decades. The current exchange model dictates that associated data is manually entered into each database. The amount of time involved and the human errors occurring in this process are difficult to justify when the data was initially produced as a report from another database. The authors propose that an online marketplace for seed exchange should be established, with enhanced search possibilities and downloadable accession data in a standardised format. Such online service should preferably be supervised and coordinated by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). This manuscript is the outcome of a workshop on July 9th, 2015, at the European botanic gardens congress “Eurogard VII” in Paris, where the first two authors invited members of the botanic garden community to discuss how the anachronistic Index Seminum can be transformed into an improved and modern tool for seed exchange.
For many botanic gardens worldwide, seed lists have provided a cost-effective means to replace plant losses in their collections for many decades, if not centuries. In seed lists, seeds are offered ...on the basis of what each garden can manage to collect and considers ‘of interest' to other botanic gardens, some offering relatively few, while others offer many, or only wild collected seeds. Seed lists have always been printed on paper. With the use of printed seed lists, the amount of information per accession has always been quite limited to keep printing costs low. Over the past few years, electronic seed lists have been rapidly replacing printed seed lists. Since distribution is electronic, there is no longer a direct link between the amount of information provided and the cost per seed list sent out. This now offers new opportunities to share information that is linked to the plant material that botanic gardens exchange. Information is not limited to text, as images can also be included. This situation is beneficial if seed-raised plants are to be used for in situ conservation. Electronic seed lists have other advantages, but there are also some disadvantages. e.g., electronic information offered via websites is quite ephemeral in nature. Some suggestions are made to overcome the several drawbacks.
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