CSBR: Living Stock Collections: Critical Environmental Upgrade for Living Collections of Arecaceae, Zamiaceae, and Cycadaceae.

CSBR：活体种群收藏：槟榔科、Zamiaceae 和苏铁科活体收藏的关键环境升级。

• 批准号: 1203242
• 负责人: M. Patrick Griffith
• 金额: $ 4.92万
• 依托单位: Montgomery Botanical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203242&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stock; Collections; Critical

This project provides a critical environmental upgrade for a living collection of plants used to support scientific research. The upgrade consists of a shade system for temperature control, a modern irrigation system, and a -80 degree C freezer to store living material. Steady growth in users and living collections make this project urgent and it will provide improvements to the efficiency, quality, health, and diversity of the living collection. Living collections of palms and cycads at MBC are a vital research resource used by a growing number of researchers and have contributed to at least 26 NSF-funded projects. The upgrades proposed here will permit successful establishment of wild-origin stocks, improve collection survival, and allow for greatly improved success in stock propagation.Montgomery is located in South Florida in an area rich with research and educational institutions, such as botanic gardens, universities and government agencies. Montgomery closely collaborates with researchers from these institutions, especially with the universities and colleges in Miami-Dade County, which serve many underrepresented minorities. Upgrading Montgomery's living collections propagation equipment will enhance and promote educational opportunities for these university students, as well as for volunteers, the public, and students in elementary and secondary schools.

该项目为支持科学研究的植物收藏提供了重要的环境升级。升级改造包括一个用于温度控制的遮阳系统，一个现代化的灌溉系统，以及一个零下80摄氏度的冰箱来储存生物材料。用户和生活收集的稳定增长使该项目变得紧迫，它将提高生活收集的效率、质量、健康和多样性。MBC的棕榈树和苏铁是越来越多的研究人员使用的重要研究资源，并为至少26个nsf资助的项目做出了贡献。这里提出的升级将允许成功建立野生来源的种群，提高集合存活率，并允许大大提高种群繁殖的成功率。蒙哥马利位于南佛罗里达州，这里有丰富的研究和教育机构，如植物园、大学和政府机构。蒙哥马利与这些机构的研究人员密切合作，特别是与迈阿密-戴德县的大学和学院合作，这些大学和学院为许多未被充分代表的少数民族提供服务。升级蒙哥马利的活体收藏传播设备将为这些大学生、志愿者、公众和中小学生提供更多的教育机会。