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  1. CRS Catholic relief Services - research and publications - When Disaster Strikes

    When Disaster Strikes This guide presents a seven-step method for assessing the security of farmers' seed systems in situations of acute or chronic stress. It offers guidance to help practitioners determine what seed-related assistance is needed. The guide serves as a practical manual for donor...
    Seed Storage Key Resource

  2. International Seed Saving Institute

    Find links to specific seed saving instructions for 27 common vegetables. This online information comes from Basic Seed Saving, a 48 page paperback book written by Bill McDorman. It was created to provide enough practical information to allow gardeners to embark on the rewarding adventure of...
    Seed Saving Seed Storage Key Resource

  3. ECHO Asia Research: Local Treatments and Vacuum Sealing as Novel Control Strategies for Stored Seed Pests in the Tropics

    2017-03-22 Seed conservation under tropical climates is a great challenge when usual storage technology is lacking. Seed pests and the loss of seed viability are among the main risks faced by farmers and seed banks. ScientistsLawrence et. al.recently found that vacuum sealing significantly reduces stored...
    Bruchids Vacuum Sealing Lablab Seed Treatment Seed Storage Germplasm Asia

  4. Procedures for Handling Seeds in Genebanks

    1985-01-01 115 pages, illustrated Practical Manuals for Genebanks: no. 1
    Seed Production Genebanks Seed Storage

  5. Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

    Key Resource 2002-03-01 Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population...
    Vegetable Seeds Seed Saving Seed Storage Vegetable

  6. SEED MATTERS

    Seed is the first link in the food and fiber chain. And the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The Clif Bar Family Foundation created Seed Matters to improve the viability and availability of organic seed to ensure healthy, nutritious and productive crops. Together with our partners and...
    Seed Saving Seed Storage

  7. Local Treatments and Vacuum Sealing as Novel Control Strategies for Stored Seed Pests in the Tropics

    Agronomy for Sustainable Development Brian Lawrence, Abram Bicksler, Kimberly Duncan Abstract : Prevention of pests while maintaining viable seed during storage is often challenging for smallholder farmers in the tropics and subtropics. Investment in costly technologies or storage equipment is...
    Bruchids Vacuum Sealing Lablab Stored seed pests Seed Storage Crop Diversity Germplasm

  8. Are my seeds dry enough?

    2017-07-17 Protecting the viability of seeds during storage can be a difficult task in the tropics, which often have high temperatures and high relative humidity. In May of 2017, ECHO hosted a seed saving workshop at our Global Farm in North Fort Myers, Florida. Both in preparation for and during this...
    Seed Storage Seed Moisture Seed Drying

  9. AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center Seed Saving Videos

    The World Vegetable Center, as the name implies, focuses on vegetables to reduce poverty and malnutrition. Their website has numerous, helpful resources and publications. Among them are videos on how to save vegetable seed. They cover amaranth, eggplant, nightshade (see EDN 103), pumpkin and...
    Seed Seeds Seed Saving Seed Storage

  10. Free Radical Processes and Loss of Seed Viability During Desiccation in the Recalcitrant Species Quercus robur L.

    Abstract -New Phytologist Loss of moisture in mature seeds ofQuercus roburL. was associated with loss of viability, a rise in lipid peroxidation and build-up of free radicals. Radical-initiated damage was largely confined to the embryonic axes as their moisture contents declined to below 47 %....
    Seed Bank Seed Storage