Karachi: The University of Karachi Centre for Plant Conservation of the Department of Botany is working to save the country’s rare plant species, which are on the brink of extinction and could soon disappear from the planet. The centre’s director Dr Anjum Perveen said, “We are trying to protect the endangered plant species, which are only present in Pakistan. We are using the plant tissue culture technique through which several plants of a particular plant can be reproduced from a single tissue of the parent plant.”
She added that due to the topographical variation of a country, many different species of plants including wild and flowering species are present in the country. However due to loss of habitat, human disturbance and deforestation, many plants species are facing the threat of extinction. It is estimated that the habitat destruction from human activity is the primary cause of risk for 83 percent of the endangered plant species.
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