Rachael Davies, Germination Specialist Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
Mon. 19 July 2021 7:30pm by Zoom
The Millennium Seed Bank represents the greatest concentration of living seed-plant biodiversity on earth. This wild seed bank is a global resource for conservation and sustainable use of plants. It currently holds nearly 40,000 species and over 2 billion seeds. The talk will cover aspects of seed collection, curation and germination as well as an overview of the work done by the MSB partnership and how seeds banks provide options for the future survival and use of plants.
FUTURE TALKS...
The Science Discovery Group will continue with their talks via Zoom for this year.
20th September 2021 Living together - Our Gut and its Microbes Katie Guzzetta, Cork University, Ireland
18th October 2021. 7.30pm by Zoom Future Rail Power Options David Shirres, Retired Network Rail engineer and Editor of Rail Engineer magazine
Thank you to those who have offered to donate to our Society, but at present we can manage without charging. We will review the situation in the autumn.
Contact:
Science Discovery Group (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe - info@cafesci-basingstoke.org.uk)