Banking On The Future: How Saving Seed Can Save Us All
Haley Smith |
TEDxRoseburg
• April 2021
Explore the inner workings of seed banks across the world and the impressive diversity of seed. From pine trees on icy mountain tops to corn grown on a Cherokee reservation, seed scientists are saving the world by saving seed. Haley Smith, horticulturist and seed scientist, explains how seed dormancy can lock seeds in time, and the many ways seed banks capitalize off seed dormancy to solve problems around the world. It all starts with a knowledge of the many complex ways of how seed work.