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Anyone interested in Svalbard, which focuses on crop seeds, might also be interested in the less glamorous Millennium Seed Bank which focuses on wild plant seed
by Blahah 10y ago
Anyone interested in Svalbard, which focuses on crop seeds, might also be interested in the less glamorous Millennium Seed Bank which focuses on wild plant seeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnersh...
- ashitlerferad 10y agoBut which is more important?
- digi_owl 10y agoHard to tell. The seed vault seems focused on plants that are in productive use at this moment, while the seed bank seems to cover wild plants. The latter may be interesting for the future if we discover that a certain plant have some kind of useful property.