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Friday, April 12, 2019

Peppermint makes a deposit to the seed bank


Climate change means that many species are struggling. So, whilst Peppermint isn’t quite doing it correctly, he is on the right lines. A seed bank means storage and preservation of seeds, a gene bank of plants. It is one of the best ways of ex situ (off site) conservation of plants as the seeds take much less space and do not need the same sort of care as a full plant. They still need care to ensure viable seeds but not the watering and feeding like growing plants. Loss of plant species does not just mean loss of potential medical breakthroughs but also loss of whole ecosystems.

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