A billion seeds and counting
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A billion seeds and counting
The UK's Millennium Seed Bank, part of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has collected its billionth seed for safekeeping and conservation. The seed was presented to the British chancellor, Gordon Brown, ahead of an official ceremony at the Seed Bank in southern England late last month to mark World Biodiversity Day. The Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) Project is one of the most ambitious conservation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.025