The genetic status and conservation management of two cultivated bulb species extinct in the wild: Tecophilaea cyanocrocus (Chile) and Tulipa sprengeri (Turkey) |
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Authors: | Mike Maunder Robyn S Cowan Penelope Stranc Michael F Fay |
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Institution: | (1) Conservation Projects Development Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK;(2) Present address: National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, Hawaii 96741, USA |
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Abstract: | Tecophilaea cyanocrocus and Tulipasprengeri are both extinct in the wild as aresult of overharvesting by commercialcollectors. Stocks of both species survive incultivation in amateur collections, commercialnurseries and botanic garden collections.Whilst both species share a similarconservation history, the distribution ofgenetic diversity within cultivated materialwas unknown. To support the long-termconservation of both species the geneticdiversity of the surviving stocks was assessedusing amplified fragment length polymorphisms(AFLPs). This study revealed different geneticstructures for the two bulb species. The Kewcollections of T. cyanocrocus, originallyobtained from a commercial nursery, VanTubergen, are genetically highly uniform andthe addition of samples from other collectionshas dramatically increased the level ofvariation. In contrast, the collections ofT. sprengeri held at Kew since the early20th century include representativegenotypes covering the whole range of geneticvariation found in this species and areprobably the source of all other cultivatedmaterial. The results are discussed in relationto the management of these species to ensuretheir continued survival in cultivation. |
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Keywords: | AFLP ex situ conservation Tecophilaea Tulipa |
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