This project directly addresses an increasingly critical need in the botanic garden conservation community: how to manage living-collections of threatened plants across multiple institutions to maintain maximum genetic diversity and demographic viability over the long-term. This is critically important if these collections are to support reintroduction efforts in the future. The zoo community achieves this by using studbooks that track the origin and source of all individuals to make scientifically-informed breeding and curation decisions. A student will be using genetic fingerprinting techniques to measure the relatedness of individuals currently held in collections.