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The Missouri Botanical Garden is on a mission to save the Fraser fir

St. Louis on the Air

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Seed Banks Aren't a One Time Effort

It's a little box that's, i don't know, about three feet by three feet. You can put the seeds in there in a petrie dish, and you close the door,. So m there's no x rays getting out of the machine. It's pretty cool. What a great tool. Just a disappointing moment when you guys realize, hay, a whole bunch of these seeds aren't going to work for us. However, any um seed banking isn't a one time effort. We have to go back. And so we need to continue to monitor those viability.

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