seed collection
Harvested plant embryos
A seed collection is a curated assemblage of plant seeds, gathered either for practical purposes like gardening and agriculture or for conservation efforts to preserve genetic diversity.
Botanical gardens and research institutions maintain seed collections, sometimes called seed banks, to safeguard endangered plant species.
Hobbyist gardeners may keep personal seed collections to save heirloom varieties or trade with other enthusiasts.
The university's seed collection contains over 10,000 native plant species.
- ex-situ conservationProtecting species elsewhere
- sortMethod of ordering
- heirloom varietiesTraditional, non-hybrid plant strains
- genetic diversityAllelic variation within populations
- gene poolSpecies' total genetic diversity
endangered species · rare plants · stratification · viability · threshing · native plants · native species · gather · winnowing · accession · afforestation · germination rates · genetic mapping · wild harvest · harvest · soil · habitat restoration · provenance
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- harvestingreaping, picking, gathering, collecting, plucking
- botanybotany, plants, plant biology, plant, plant anatomy
- forestrysilviculture, forests, forestry, reforestation, timber
- BotanistsCarl Linnaeus, plant collector, plant scientist, ethnobotanist, paleobotanist
- conservation worktrail maintenance, tree planting, habitat restoration, reforestation, native planting