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The former NSW Seedbank was established in 1986 [2] and originally collected wild seed for the Gardens. The former seedbank went through an extensive upgrade in 1999 and ensured that the seeds were of high quality. The biggest and latest update was in 2013, where the NSW Seedbank turned into the Australian PlantBank.
The Irish Seed Savers Association aims to: [2] Protect, conserve and utilise Irish plant genetic resources including rare heritage seeds, grains, vegetables and fruit.
In some cases seed swaps are annual events and function as community celebrations (comparable to potlucks), [13]: 158 such as the annual seed swap (in its eleventh year in 2008) [8] on the Oglethorpe farm near Athens, Georgia, organized by two anthropology professors from the University of Georgia (the university has a seedbank, the "Southern ...
The SSE publishes a list of members' seeds annually in the Seed Savers Yearbook, complete with a description of the crop and its known history. [4] It is headquartered at the 890-acre (3.6 km 2) Heritage Farm, [1] located six miles from Decorah, Iowa. [4] Heritage Farm was originally purchased in 1986. [5]
According to The Economist, "the Svalbard vault is a backup for the world's 1,750 seed banks, storehouses of agricultural biodiversity." [33] Norwegian law has prohibited the storing of genetically modified seeds at the vault. [37] The adjacent Arctic World Archive provides a similar service for data, which is etched as code into reels of film ...
The seed bank is one of the key factors for the persistence and density fluctuations of plant populations, especially for annual plants. [4] Perennial plants have vegetative propagules to facilitate forming new plants, migration into new ground, or reestablishment after being top-killed, which are analogous to seed bank in their persistence ability under disturbance.
One of the consequences of an increasing global awareness of the finite nature of crop genetic resources and the debate over ownership of these resources has been the establishment of gene banks and seed banks in many countries, notably Fowler's recent efforts to develop the Svalbard Global Seed Vault off the coast of Norway in the Arctic ...
The Seed Library of Los Angeles: checking out seeds at a monthly meeting. Seed library shelving, USA. A seed library is an institution that lends or shares seed.It is distinguished from a seedbank in that the main purpose is not to store or hold germplasm or seeds against possible destruction, but to disseminate them to the public which preserves the shared plant varieties through propagation ...