ABSTRACT
Mahatma Gandhi Botanical Garden, of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, is one of the Lead Botanical Gardens of the country actively engaged in the conservation of threatened and endemic plants through ex situ conservation, propagation, dissemination, and creating awareness. To date, about 1,000 plants species have been successfully conserved in the garden belonging to 615 genera and 121 families of flowering plants, including 29 threatened species. Conservation activities in the garden include ex situ collection of threatened and endemic plants of the Western Ghats and developing the propagation protocols for them.
