Global seed banking participants celebrate milestone

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 10/15/2009 - 10:01am

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.

Thousands of seeds from nearly 25,000 native plant species have been collected and frozen down at locations that include [...]



 

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