Saving threatened plant species: Reintroduction of Hill’s thistle (Cirsium hillii. (Canby) Fernald) to its natural habitat

• Bita Sheikholeslami,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Agriculture, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Mukund Shukla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Agriculture, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Christina Turi,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Agriculture, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Cavan Harpur,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bruce Peninsula National Park, Tobermory, ON, Canada

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• Praveen K. Saxena

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: psaxena@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliation Department of Plant Agriculture, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7203-6868

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