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At a time when public opinion has become focussed on environmental problems and the protection of wild life, the maintenance of living plant collections has also assumed considerable importance. Maintenance does not only involve economic and technical problems but also problems of basic research mainly relating to genetics. This brings up the question: That do we want to maintain and what can we maintain? There are two alternative possibilities to consider:
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To keep the populations concerned as far as possible under the same conditions as they grow in their natural environment so as to allow them to follow the same lines of evolution as in nature; this may be called conservation.
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To keep the populations at the stage of evolution at which they were taken from nature; this may be called preservation.
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Esser, K. (1976). Genetic Factors to be Considered in Maintaining Living Plant Collections. In: Simmons, J.B., Beyer, R.I., Brandham, P.E., Lucas, G.L., Parry, V.T.H. (eds) Conservation of Threatened Plants. NATO Conference Series, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2517-8_19
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