Seedbank
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A seedbank stores seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a type of gene bank. The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity. The reasons for storing seeds may be varied. In the case of food crops, many useful plants that were developed over centuries are now no longer used for commercial agricultural production and are becoming rare. Storing seeds also guards against catastrophic events like natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, or war. Unlike seed libraries or seed swaps that encourage frequent reuse and sharing of seeds, seedbanks are not typically open to the public.
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- Related: Agroecology, Arboretum, Biodiversity, Conservation movement, Gene bank, Gene pool, Germplasm, Heirloom plant, Knowledge ark, Millennium Seed Bank Project, Orthodox seed, Recalcitrant seed, Seed, Seed company, Seed saving, Seed swap, Soil Seed Bank, Sustainability
| BBC: Planned Norwegian seed bank BBC: Planned Norwegian seed bank news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4605398.stm - Web |
| MSNBC: Norwegian seedbank MSNBC: Norwegian seedbank www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13409404/ - Web |
| The Danish seedbank The Danish seedbank seedlab.dk - Web |
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| The International Rice Genebank at IRRI The International Rice Genebank at IRRI irri.org/.../the-genebank-and-conservation-at-irri - Web |
| The dutchseedsbank (dsb) The dutchseedsbank (dsb) www.dutchseedsbank.com - Web |
