Breathing Planet Programme Strategy 5 - Save seed and prosper
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, a collaboration between Kew and 120 partners in 54 countries, has two key roles – safeguarding plant diversity by storing seed from wild species and making seed available for sustainable use in agriculture, horticulture, forestry and habitat restoration. By 2020 we will have banked seed from 25 per cent of the world’s plants, targeting species and regions most at risk from climate change such as alpine endemics, coastal species and those endemic to desertifying lands.
Read about the Save Seed And Prosper Science Projects
Climate Change, Species Vulnerability and Germination Thresholds
Collecting the Flora of Bulgaria
Collecting the Flora of Kyrgyzstan
Conservation of the Eastern Africa Afromontane Flora
Ex situ Conservation of the Flora of the Caucasus
Cactus Seed Biology Database
Maternal Environment and Provenance Effects on Seed Longevity (Project completed 2011)
Cryo-conservation Centres of Excellence
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
Improving the Identification, Handling and Storage of ‘Difficult’ Seeds
Scientific Research & Data
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