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Seed germination after 30 years storage in permafrost

Solberg, Svein Øivind; Brodal, Guro; von Bothmer, Roland; Meen, Eivind; Yndgaard, Flemming; Andreasen, C; Asdal, Åsmund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

More than 30 years ago, the Nordic Gene Bank established a long-term experiment on seeds stored under permafrost conditions in an abandoned mine corridor in Svalbard, as a tool to monitor storage life under these conditions. ...
Seed Longevity and Survival of Seed Borne Diseases after 30 Year’s Conservation in Permafrost. REPORT FROM THE 100 YEAR STORAGE EXPERIMENT

Asdal, Åsmund; Brodal, Guro; Solberg, Svein Øivind; Yndgaard, Flemming; von Bothmer, Roland; Meen, Eivind (Research report, 2019)

The Nordic Gene bank established the 100 year seed storage experiment in Coal mine no. 3 outside Longyearbyen in 1986. Security duplicate samples of the Nordic seed collection had been deposited in permafrost in the coal ...