Year: 2022

KEEP THE EYE ON THE BALL. We have probably all had a bellyful of the misdeeds of an expedient military culture. No single country appears to be much more blames than the other. One purpose of this extended exercise was to put in riveting and memorable context the relative innocence of our garage biopunk biologists. View in LinkedIn

PRESERVED AND REVIVED GENETIC MATERIAL is the topic for the next focus of blogs. Since nature's incredible evolutionary experiment of genetic diversity took billions of years to develop the current set of plants and animals, it is an enormous genetic and experimental loss when any of these species disappears. This is a peek at this field. http://lnkd.in/dCng3zh View in LinkedIn

GENETIC MATERIAL BANKS include seed banks for plant seeds; tissue banks for buds and parts of asexual plants; cryobanks for seeds and embryos; field gene banks; sperm and Iva banks; biobanks; biological databases; and coral gene banks. And others. These are all conservation efforts to preserve genetic material. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_bank View in LinkedIn

DOOMSDAY GENE VAULT. "More than 20,000 crops from more than 100 nations have arrived at a "Doomsday vault" in the Arctic Circle. The purpose of the depository ... is to store duplicates of all seed samples from crop collections around the world." http://lnkd.in/dUyYDfz View in LinkedIn

"THE SVALBARD SEED VAULT has the capacity to store 4,5 million different seed samples ... a maximum of 2,25 billion seeds may be stored ... will therefore have the capacity to hold all the unique seed samples that are conserved today by all the approximately 1400 genebanks ... all over the world." http://www.regjeringen.no/mobil/en/dep/lmd/campain/svalbard-global-seed-vault/frequently-asked-questions.html?id=462221 View in LinkedIn

GENE VAULTS "vast buildings devoted to preserving the seeds of as many plants as possible, partly for scientific research and partly to hedge our bets as more and more plants go extinct ... the Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault, are designed to withstand global catastrophe..." http://lnkd.in/dyTsvR9 View in LinkedIn

THE BILLION SEED BANK, or 10% of the global plant total. "The Millennium Seed Bank Project is an international conservation project coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ... Launched in the year 2000, its purpose is to provide an "insurance policy" against the extinction of plants in the wild by storing seeds for future use." http://lnkd.in/dThPgD6 View in LinkedIn

ISRAELI GENEBANK. "The introduction of modern agricultural technology has led to the decline and loss of many landraces indigenous to Israel. To combat this phenomenon, the Israel Gene Bank was established to gather existing collections of genetic materials of traditional crops into a single, comprehensive seed bank." http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/project/israel-plant-gene-bank View in LinkedIn

AEGIS EUROPEAN GENEBANK. Includes 44 European countries, over 1 million accessions, with germ plasm conserved in 35 countries. http://lnkd.in/dg4UxgZ View in LinkedIn

PLANT SEEDS are complicated, clever, and curious packaged embryos, with tremendously diverse and ingenious strategies for survival. These seemingly fragile spaceships of future plant life can survive severe and even catastrophic environments, and hibernate for very long periods until conditions improve. http://lnkd.in/ddyNBfG View in LinkedIn