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Seedbank
A facility designed for the ex situ conservation of individual plant varieties through seed preservation and storage. (source: WCMC) Background from Wikipedia Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various in nature, such as those of food crops or those of rare species, to protect biodiversity. The reasons for storing seeds may be varied also, in the case of food crops many useful plants were developed over centuries and are now no longer used for commercial agricultural production and are becoming rare. Unless recognised as formally named cultivars, varieties, or otherwise such plants are known as landraces. Storing seeds also guards against natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, war, etc. Citizen,...flora have been moved to the Pretoria National Botanical Gardens, some seeds going to the Millennium Seedbank in Kew Gardens, England. Peak District roadsides a riot of colour - Jul 20, 2007 Telegraph.co.uk,Local residents identified many of the verges, on both main roads and green lanes, as potential reserves because of the seedbank they were known to contain. African GM crop is maize virus resistant - Aug 16, 2007 Science Daily (press release)...full article Seedbank -- Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various Pine bark great for growing blueberries - Jul 25, 2007 Atlanta Journal Constitution,Your frustration comes from the morning glory "seedbank." When a single morning glory flowers, many seed are produced. All fall to the ground, Islands come in from cold to attract polar tourism - Aug 9, 2007 The Herald,The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a "doomsday" seedbank under construction on Spitzbergen. The government of Norway will fund most of the £1.5m construction Chipped for blue gum blunders - Jul 31, 2007 Village Voice.com.au,..."The longer the woodchips are there, the more likely the seedbank is to be compromised," Mr Parr said. Current state legislation prohibits anyone from Second Round M'sia-EU Timber Legality Talks Next Month - Mar 21, 2007 Bernama,There is no time limit actually," he said when met by reporters after the commemoration of World Forestry Day at Seedbank, Semenggoh Nature Reserve, Sustainable Agriculture Rice Farming Community to Defy Eviction - Apr 5, 2007 Axis of Logic,...agriculture (SA) farm and a community seedbank with hundreds of traditional rice varieties (TRVs) that have disappeared elsewhere in the country. Farmers still early in the resistance game with glyphosate ... - Mar 23, 2007 Southwest Farm Press,...“With glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth, one of the keys will be to reduce the seedbank,� said York. “If you can get three or four years of good control, Global map of plant biodiversity created - Mar 20, 2007 Science Daily (press release)Seedbank -- Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various in nature, Seedbank to the World - Feb 14, 2007 Illinois Farm Bureau,The IFB Market Study Tour left Mexico City Wednesday to visit CIMMYT, which is a world-renowed corn and wheat research center and today hosts a repository Fiber agency pushes 2 programs to boost abaca production - Mar 7, 2007 Sun.Star,It also includes the post and harvest facilities and research on seedbank stations. "We wish here for the conduct of marketing studies, but as of now, US upgrades processing plant inspections - Feb 22, 2007 Science Daily (press release)Seedbank -- Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various in nature, Frankincense Trees Overexploited For Christmas Scent - Dec 13, 2006 Science Daily (press release)Seedbank -- Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various in nature, News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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