**5. Conclusions**


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propagation of seedlings of these species, which help reforestation and restoration of their populations in their natural environment.

## **Acknowledgements**

We dedicate this chapter to the distinguished Professor of Natural Sciences Dr. Enrique Estrada Faudón, from University of Guadalajara, the western Mexican "Humboldt" for leading since 1985, the first large-scale propagation of *Magnolia pugana* to prevent extinction. To the University of Guadalajara (UDG), Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Botanic Gardens Conservation International and Fondation Franklinia. Especially thanks to Dr. Adriana Natividad Avedaño López, Sergio Misael Gallegos Mendoza and Weerakit Harnphariphan for their support and advice in conducting this research. This work was supported by Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP-México) through its PRODEP program PROMEP-NPTC/103.5/12/3418, through its PRO-SNI program and the P3E 2013-2018 project of CUCBA (UDG). We are grateful to Bob Price, Neil Gerlowski, Ralph Osborne†, from Vallarta Botanical Gardens, members of the Magnolia Society International, Global Conservation Consortium Magnolia (GCCM) and Toribio Quintero Moro from Ayuntamiento de Talpa de Allende for financial and or logistical support. To Patricia Castro-Félix, Anne Santerre, Ahtziri Socorro Carranza Aranda, Mario Ruiz López, J. Luis Navarrete Heredia, Alma Rosa Villlobos for their research collaboration. To supporters in field explorations: Abel Puente Casillas, Alejandro Zabalgoitia, Ana Teresa Nuño Rubio, Heriberto Justo Nieves, Jesús Padilla-Lepe, Jesús Truijillo, Miguel Cházaro, Ricardo Díaz Borioli, Rosa Murguía Araiza and Saúl Cristobal Gabriel.

### **Author details**

José Antonio Vázquez-García1 \*, Miguel Angel Muñiz-Castro<sup>1</sup> , Alex Dahua-Machoa<sup>1</sup> , Edison Antonio Osorio-Muñoz<sup>2</sup> , Gerardo Hernández-Vera<sup>1</sup> , Alondra Salomé Ortega-Peña<sup>1</sup> , Rosa de Lourdes Romo-Campos1 , César Jacobo-Pereira1 , Noelia Álvarez de Román<sup>3</sup> and Viacheslav Shalisko<sup>1</sup>

1 University Center for Biological and Agricultural Sciences, of the University of Guadalajara, Zapopan, México

2 Research and Development Group in Sciences Applied to Biological Resources, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, Ecuador

3 Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, United Kingdom

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