What is seed science?

We need to save the seeds – the most important part of the plant.

Age: Primary School, Secondary School
Time: 1 min
Format: Video

Take a tour of The Australian PlantBank and explore the award-winning home of plant conservation. Learn why seedbanking is an area of science that provides an ‘insurance policy’ against a total loss of plants.

Did you know?

Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) was a Russian geneticist and botanist who collected seeds from all over the world. He set up one of the first seed banks, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), which survived the 28-month Siege of Leningrad during World War II.