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SACRED Seeds: A Seed Conservation Partnership between the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

MSBP's Tim Pearce (r) with Dr. Phillip Ainsley (l) Manager of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, Plant Germplasm Conservation Centre, home of the SACRED Seeds project.

This partnership is one of seven Australian partnerships in the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP).  SACRED Seeds aims to support plant conservation within South Australia by complementing in situ plant conservation activities at a state level by establishing a programme of increased seed collection for targeted species, and undertaking research to understand the germination and long-term storage requirements for seed of collected species.

The objectives of the project are:

1.         An enhancement and strengthening in the capacity of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide Seed Conservation Centre to collect and conserve South Australia’s threatened and priority plant species;

2.         An increase in the number of long-term seed conservation collections of threatened and priority South Australian flora using the most current and appropriate seed banking and collecting technologies;

3.         The development and adoption of improved seed management procedures for long-term conservation collections held at the Seed Conservation Centre;

4.         Improved availability of seed management information and procedures for South Australian plant species to end-users.

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