Green Living: Guardian of the world's lost plants
Date
1/19/2017 1:15:58 AM
(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Stacked beneath vaulted ceilings in a tsarist-era building, cabinets store the seeds of thousands of plant varieties, many long gone from their original areas of habitat or cultivation.
plants from the ravages of war and industrialisation.
frozen seeds and grafts inside a metal vat in the institute's seed vault