Research at the Botanical Garden
In its research activities, the Botanical Garden is primarily a research support unit whose mission is to provide living plant material, breeding facilities and practical assistance to researchers and students.
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The garden also conducts its own research activities, focusing on northern plant reproduction and hardiness, environmental research (landscaping, ornamental plants, endangered plants) and applied biotechnology as a part of plant production science. We constantly look new winterhardy ornamentals to Northern green areas and gardens. Finnish endangered wild plants are propagated to increase our ex situ -collection.
Botanical Garden has cryopreservation equipment for the conservation of plant genetic resources, where plant material can be stored in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees. The garden has developed cryopreservation protocols for several native endangered wild plants.
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