Technical Information Sheets
Information written by Millennium Seed Bank staff on various aspects of collecting and storing seeds.
Browse our information sheets for advice on collecting and storing seeds for conservation. Further titles are planned, including Germination Testing, Dormancy Breaking Techniques, and Pre-Banking Quality Assessment.
- Protocol for comparative seed longevity testing (pdf)
- Assessing a potential seed collection (pdf)
- Seed collecting techniques (pdf)
- Post-harvest handling of seed collections (pdf)
- Measuring seed moisture status using a hygrometer (pdf)
- Selecting containers for long-term seed storage (pdf)
- Low-cost monitors of seed moisture status (pdf)
- Small-scale seed drying methods (pdf)
- Equilibrating seeds to specific moisture levels (pdf)
- Identifying desiccation-sensitive seeds (pdf)
- Seed bank design: seed drying rooms (pdf)
- Seed bank design: cold rooms for seed storage (pdf)
- not yet published
- Cleaning seed collections for long-term conservation (pdf)
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