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Seedbank

Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various in nature, such as those of food crops or those of rare species, to protect biodiversity. For more information about the topic Seedbank, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles: Seed predation — Seed predation includes any process inflicted on a plant’s seeds by an animal that results in the inviability of the seed. Generally this ... > read more Legume — The term legume has two closely related meanings in botany, legume can refer to either the plant itself, or to the edible fruit (or useful part). ... > read more Seedless Fruit — In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without ... > read more Nut (fruit) — A nut in botany is a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard a