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Svalbard Global Seed Bank, an ex situ conservation. Ex situ conservation (lit. ' off-site conservation ') is the process of protecting an endangered species, variety, or breed of plant or animal outside its natural habitat.
Millennium Seed Bank building Central visitor hall Bixa orellana seeds Ravenala madagascariensis seeds. The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP or MSB), formerly known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world [1] coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
A seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. [1] There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, taste, etc. of crops.
For live cells/tissues, germplasm resources can be stored ex situ in seed banks, botanic gardens, or through cryopreservation. Cryopreservation is the process of storing germplasm at very low temperatures, such as liquid nitrogen. [5] This process ensures that cells do not degrade and keeps the germplasm intact.
The need for native plants has become more urgent as wildfires continue to burn throughout the West.
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. This provides ...
The project started in 2008 by Bioversity International, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, "to create a single information portal to facilitate the access to, and use of, accessions in ex situ gene banks". [2]
The seed bank has a bias in stocking high CBD seeds for cannabis’ touted therapeutic and healing properties, e.g. pain relief, relaxation, nausea relief, and more.