TY - JOUR A1 - Havinga, Reinout A1 - Kool, Anneleen A1 - Achille, Frederic A1 - Bavcon, Joze A1 - Berg, Christian A1 - Bonomi, Costantino A1 - Burkart, Michael A1 - De Meyere, Dirk A1 - Havstrom, Mats A1 - Kessler, Paul A1 - Knickmann, Barbara A1 - Koester, Nils A1 - Martinez, Remy A1 - Ostgaard, Havard A1 - Ravnjak, Blanka A1 - Scheen, Anne-Cathrine A1 - Smith, Pamela A1 - Smith, Paul A1 - Socher, Stephanie A. A1 - Vange, Vibekke T1 - The Index Seminum: Seeds of change for seed exchange JF - Taxon N2 - Botanic gardens have been exchanging seeds through seed catalogues for centuries. In many gardens, these catalogues remain an important source of plant material. Living collections have become more relevant for genetic analysis and derived research, since genomics of non-model organisms heavily rely on living material. The range of species that is made available annually on all seed lists combined, provides an unsurpassed source of instantly accessible plant material for research collections. Still, the Index Seminum has received criticism in the past few decades. The current exchange model dictates that associated data is manually entered into each database. The amount of time involved and the human errors occurring in this process are difficult to justify when the data was initially produced as a report from another database. The authors propose that an online marketplace for seed exchange should be established, with enhanced search possibilities and downloadable accession data in a standardised format. Such online service should preferably be supervised and coordinated by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). This manuscript is the outcome of a workshop on July 9th, 2015, at the European botanic gardens congress "Eurogard VII" in Paris, where the first two authors invited members of the botanic garden community to discuss how the anachronistic Index Seminum can be transformed into an improved and modern tool for seed exchange. KW - database KW - Index Seminum KW - information technology KW - living collections management KW - Nagoya-protocol KW - seed exchange Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.12705/652.9 SN - 0040-0262 SN - 1996-8175 VL - 65 SP - 333 EP - 336 PB - International Association for Plant Taxonomy CY - Bratislava ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuhrmeister, Pamela A1 - Smith, Garrett A1 - Myers, Emily B. T1 - Overlearning of non-native speech sounds does not result in superior consolidation after a period of sleep JF - The journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - Recent studies suggest that sleep-mediated consolidation processes help adults learn non-native speech sounds. However, overnight improvement was not seen when participants learned in the morning, perhaps resulting from native-language interference. The current study trained participants to perceive the Hindi dental/retroflex contrast in the morning and tested whether increased training can lead to overnight improvement. Results showed overnight effects regardless of training amount. In contrast to previous studies, participants in this study heard sounds in limited contexts (i.e., one talker and one vowel context), corroborating other findings, suggesting that overnight improvement is seen in non-native phonetic learning when variability is limited. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000943 SN - 0001-4966 SN - 1520-8524 VL - 147 IS - 3 SP - EL289 EP - EL294 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER -