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  2. Australian PlantBank - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Seed Savers Exchange - Wikipedia

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    The SSE was founded by Kent Whealy and Diane Ott Whealy in 1975, inspired to protect and preserve heirloom varieties after they were given the seeds of two heirloom plants (a German tomato and a morning glory vine) that her great-grandfather had brought to the U.S. from Bavaria in 1870.

  4. Irish Seed Savers Association - Wikipedia

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    Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ... The Irish Seed Savers Association maintains a seed bank with over 600 non ...

  5. Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Open Source Seed Initiative - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Scientists Have Launched a Living Seed Bank to Defend ... - AOL

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    In order to protect these trees, Science Saving Rainforests, a new project run by the Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy, is creating a “living seed bank” in an attempt to safeguard these trees ...

  8. Institute of Plant Industry - Wikipedia

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    The Institute of Plant Industry was established in 1921 in Leningrad by Nikolai Vavilov who set about to create the world's first and largest collection of plant seeds. . Already in 1916 he did his first collection trip abroad, to Iran, and by 1932 he had collected seeds from almost every country in the world, which by 1933 had made the institute the largest seed bank in the world, with more ...

  9. Vijaypal Baghel - Wikipedia

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