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  2. Heirloom plant - Wikipedia

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    An heirloom plant, heirloom variety, heritage fruit (Australia and New Zealand), or heirloom vegetable (especially in Ireland and the UK) is an old cultivar of a plant used for food that is grown and maintained by gardeners and farmers, particularly in isolated communities of the Western world. [1] These were commonly grown during earlier ...

  3. Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [ 5 ] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks.

  4. Seed library - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Heirloom tomato - Wikipedia

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    Organic heirloom tomatoes. An heirloom tomato (also called heritage tomato in the UK) is an open-pollinated, non-hybrid heirloom cultivar of tomato. They are classified as family heirlooms, commercial heirlooms, mystery heirlooms, or created heirlooms. They usually have a shorter shelf life and are less disease resistant than hybrids.

  6. Open pollination - Wikipedia

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    Open pollination. Detasseling corn (maize) plants from one variety in a field where two varieties are planted. The male flowers are removed so that all seeds are hybrids sired from the second variety. " Open pollination " and " open pollinated " refer to a variety of concepts in the context of the sexual reproduction of plants.

  7. Oldest viable seed - Wikipedia

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    The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was a roughly 2,000-year-old Judean date palm seed, recovered during excavations at Herod the Great 's palace on Masada. It had been preserved in a cool, dry place, not by freezing. It was germinated in 2005. [3][4][5][6]

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