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Seed banks preserve plant diversity
October 02, 2003'Some seed gene banks contain more higher plant species per square meter than anywhere else on the planet', write Simon Linington and colleagues of the Millenium Seed Bank, Kew, in the October issue of Biologist. This helps to 'ensure plant diversity is available long term for use in development or habitat restoration', they explain.
Although genetically uniform crop varieties can produce good yields, the plants may be more vulnerable to new diseases than traditional varieties. Seed banks underpin their replacement. Similarly, seed banks offer a valuable resource for reintroduction of many native wild plant species, lost through habitat destruction and fragmentation or out-competition by invading alien species.
Linington and colleagues comment: 'Seed banking cannot directly protect ecosystems.' However, 'it may offer the last line of defence for many plant populations'.
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Seed Bank Current Events and Seed Bank News RSSGlobal Seed Banking Milestone Celebrated by Wildflower Center, 122 Other Organizations
An international partnership of 54 countries led by the United Kingdom's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is celebrating a decade of work to set aside seeds for future generations from 10 percent of the world's wild flowering species.
Global seed vault marks 1-year anniversary with 4-ton shipment of critical food crops
Four tons of seeds - almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species - from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three international agricultural research centers in Syria, Mexico and Colombia, were delivered today to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as it celebrated its one-year anniversary.
Scientists propose the creation of a new type of seed bank
While an international seed bank in a Norwegian island has been gathering news about its agricultural collection, a group of U.S. scientists has just published an article outlining a different kind of seed bank, one that proposes the gathering of wild species -- at intervals in the future -- effectively capturing evolution in action.
Predicting the perfect predator
Garlic mustard has become an invasive species in temperate forests across the United States, choking out native plants on forest floors and threatening ecosystem diversity.
University of Sussex launches world's first degree programme in 'seed banking'
Biologists are being offered the chance to help save the planet by enrolling in an innovative new postgraduate degree at the University of Sussex this autumn. Together with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the University is to offer the world's first degree programme in 'seed banking', which includes strategies for safeguarding the earth's most endangered plants. Wakehurst Place is the Royal Botanic Gardens' "country garden in West Sussex" and home of the Millennium Seed Bank. The largest seed bank in the world, it is part of an international collaborative plant-conservation initiative that aims to safeguard 24,000 plant species against extinction. The Millennium Seed
Pharoah`s ears
"Three years ago, a mummy was unrolled in London, and in its hand was a small bag of Wheat. Some grains of it were sown and vegetated. Its produce has again been sown . . . and has produced an average of 38 ears or spikes for each grain sown. To be sold in packets of 10 grains each at £1 per packet..." In 1843, when The Gardeners` Chronicle ran this ad, the public was crazy about ancient Egypt. And nothing was more fascinating than the notion that "mummy wheat", grain discovered in the tombs of kings-often in model granaries like this one-would spring to life after thousands of years. At £1 a packet, worth £60 today, people were paying for something more than a few stalks o
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