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Seeds stored in air-tight glass containers in -20°C freezers at the Millennium Seed Bank. | RBG Kew / Wolfgang Stuppy
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‘Indiana Jones’ scientists collect seeds in wild for climate change fight

LONDON, (Reuters) – Braving perils from blood-sucking leeches to tigers and using transport as basic as elephants, scientists have journeyed like “Indiana Jones” to remote locations to collect wild cousins of crop seeds in a project to help tackle climate change. A report released on Tuesday presented the results of a six-year quest to collect […] Read more
December 3, 2019

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