Ultradry seed storage cuts cost of gene bank

Guang-Hua Zheng (), Xin-Ming Jing and Kar-Ling Tao
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Guang-Hua Zheng: Beijing Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany
Xin-Ming Jing: Beijing Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany
Kar-Ling Tao: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AGPS (Seed and Plant Genetic Resources Service)

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6682, 223-224

Abstract: Abstract Today we are faced with an urgent challenge to organize the efficient conservation of biodiversity. In the case of plants, one way of doing this is to store their seeds in a gene bank. The effective preservation of seeds depends on their moisture content and on the storage temperature, which can present a problem in developing countries where the costs of cold storage are prohibitive. Here we describe a way of storing seeds under ultradry conditions at ambient temperatures which not only improves their longevity and vigour but also promises to be a cost-effective technique for germplasm conservation.

Date: 1998
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