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Seedkeeping can create a sense of home, reconnect communities with ancestral crops and preserve biodiversity and culturally significant crops for future generations.
The idea that seed banks must be full of potentially helpful microfungi inside seeds was not a stretch, and yet no one had ever looked before.
New research shows even brief hot spells can damage seed quality.
Saving seed is a way of protecting the world’s vegetable varieties, saving money, and increasingly, a political statement too.
Despite the optimistic name, the showy everlasting only has three wild populations in Australia. But a West Australian public school has stepped up to help grow vital new seeds.
With technology, humans can now control temperature, humidity, water and light, creating new “outdoor” environments, inside.
Diversity, resilience, resistance to disease: seeds must be preserved to ensure we can feed our world in the future.
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PhD Candidate, Fungi, at Kew Gardens and, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Director, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
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Chargé de Recherche, Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Sociétés and Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Crop Production, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Senior Research Leader, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Dalla Lana Global Journalism Fellow, University of Toronto
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Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Professor of Economics, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
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Professor of Microbiology, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore
