Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

agricultural project, England, United Kingdom
Also known as: Kew Seed Bank, Millennium Seed Bank Project

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Kew Gardens

  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, with the Temperate House at centre.
    In Kew Gardens

    …Seed Bank Project (later the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership) to mitigate the extinction of at-risk and useful plants through seed preservation. Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank is the largest wild plant seed bank in the world. By 2018 it contained about 13 percent of the world’s wild plant species, holding some…

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