Agricultural experts say that supporting the use of traditional seeds, also known as heirloom varieties, could minimize the ...

It’s a frustrating cycle as weed history repeats year after year and the soil seed bank gorges on a river of plenty. Jason Norsworthy, weed scientist with the University of Arkansas, is ...

Seed abundance decreased with depth in the soil. The seeds of all species generally had clustered ... The smaller number of large samples favored by many seed-bank researchers generally results in ...

The key to that restoration might be soil seed banks. These aren’t the same kind of seed banks that you find in places like Svalbard – these are naturally occurring banks of seeds that lie ...

These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds. Fynbos is a special community of plants found only in South Africa. Some of the most famous are the ...