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Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post-2020 era
Andreas Ensslin, Adelaide Clemente, Udayangani Liu, Elke Zippel, Carla Pinto-Cruz, Carolina Sanchez Romero, Simone Schneider, Agust챠 Agut Escrig, Charlotte Allender, K체lli Annamaa, Marina Antic, Bertille Asset, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Oz Baranzani, Anamaria Barata, Philippe Bardin, Joze Bavcon, Anabela D. F. Belo, Marina Belovarska, Karim Benkhelifa, Christian Berg, Karl-Georg Bernhardt, Marcin Beza, Kristina Bjureke, Sina Bohm, Peter Borgmann, Josep Borrell, St챕phane Buord, Jocelyne Cambecedes, Francesca Carruggio, Angelino Carta, Pedro Casimiro, Ted Chapman, Iveta Cicova, Regis Crisnaire, Antonia Cristaudo, Lucia De la Rosa, Ma챤te Delmas, Gergana Desheva, Valter Di Cecco, Luciano Di Martino, Katia Diadema, Lara Dixon, Denise Dostatny, Marie Duval, Roland K. Eberwein, Mikel Etxeberria-Okariz, Caroline Favier, Nick Fenby, Mariana P. Fernandes, Inmaculada Ferrando-Pardo, Pablo Ferrer, No챕mie Fort, Luigi Forte, Catia F. Freitas, Agnese Gailite, Katarzyna Galej-Ciwis, Rosa Maria Garcia, Ana Irene Garc챠a-del Bao, Catherine Gautier, Bronislovas Gelvonauskis, Gian Petro Giusso del Galdo, Miguel Angel Gonz찼lez P챕rez, Johan Gourvil, Luisa Gouveia, Thierry Helminger, Brais Hermosilla Lorenzo, Laetitia Hugot, Marko Hyv채rinen, Ignac Jan탑ekovi훾, Andreas K철nig, Nikos Krigas, Emilio Laguna, Ludivine Lap챕bie, Denis Larpin, Maja Lazarevi훶, Dikla Lifshitz, Vincent Lipa, Carlos Lobo, Ulrike Lohwasser, Sandrine Loriot, Sara Magrini, Francesca Mantino, Mauro Mariotti, Evi Matiatou, Lubomir Mendel, Marine Millet, Mari Miranto, Andrea Mondoni, Santiago Moreno V찼zquez, Valeria Negri, Peter Nick, Maciej Niemczyk, Humberto Nobrega, Pawel Olejniczak, Ma흢gorzata Pa흢ucka, Katerina Papanastasi, Ioanna Papanikolaou, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Marco Porceddu, Sotirios Porevis, Peter Poschlod, Lorenzo Raggi, Sarmite Rancane, Leonid Rasran, Blanka Ravnjak, St챕phane Rivi챔re, Axelle Roumier, Anna Ruci흦ska, Felix Schlatti, Marco Schmidt, Guy-Xavier Seznec, Manuela Sim-Sim, Ana Luisa Soares, Nora Stoeckl, Silvia Strajeru, Gitana Stukeniene, Andrej 힋u큄ek, Andreas Titze, , Zlatina Tsvetanova, Theo Van Hintum, Nils Van Rooijen, Magdalena Vicens Forn챕s, Mariacristina Villani, Silvia Villegas, Fiona J. White, Sabine Zachago, Elena Zappa, Vince Zsigmond, Sandrine Godefroid
Ambitious targets have been set to backup seeds of threatened plants by the global strategy for plant conservation (GSPC), but it is unclear in how far these targets have been met and how seed collection should be organized to meet future challenges. Here, we provide an overview of the status of 44 countries in achieving seed conservation targets. We show that progress varies strongly across countries, but in general, targets of the 2011–2020 GSCP have not been reached. By a regional example, we illustrate how seed collection could be organized to safeguard our threatened flora.