{"id":174501,"date":"2021-04-12T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=174501"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:43:40","slug":"polish-academy-of-sciences-launching-the-first-seed-bank-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-academy-of-sciences-launching-the-first-seed-bank-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Academy of Sciences launching the first Seed Bank in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The\u00a0Seed\u00a0Bank\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Botanical Garden of the\u00a0Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)\u00a0in\u00a0Powsin stores seeds of rare, endangered and protected species of Polish plants.\u00a0It is the first bank of this type in Europe to collect crops under cryogenic conditions that retain the properties of the seeds for up to several thousand years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the bank stores seeds from 256 plant species represented by approximately 850 samples.\u00a0This material was placed in liquid nitrogen vapors at a temperature of about -160\u00baC in special tanks.\u00a0In such conditions, it can remain viable for several hundred or even several thousand years thanks to the maximum slowing of the processes of aging of seeds &#8211; explains Dr Anna Ruci\u0144ska from the Department of Conservation Botany, head of\u00a0the Seed Bank and the Cryopreservation Laboratory of the Botanical Garden of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Powsin.<\/p>\n<p>The material secured at the Seed Bank is ultimately intended to restore the species to natural conditions.\u00a0Such an undertaking has been carried out in the last two years.\u00a0The project is co-financed by the European Union Cohesion Fund. The Seed Bank of the Polish Academy of Sciences recreated the extinct populations of the bellflower in the Kampinos National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Seed\u00a0Bank\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Botanical Garden of the\u00a0Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)\u00a0in\u00a0Powsin stores seeds of rare, endangered and protected species of Polish plants.\u00a0It is the first bank of this type in Europe to collect crops under cryogenic conditions that retain the properties of the seeds for up to several thousand years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Currently, the bank stores seeds from 256 plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}