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BRITAIN-BOTANY-ENVIRONMENT
Seeds lie in petri dishes waiting to be processed in Kew's Millennium Seed Bank on the day that it celebrates adding its 24,200th seed species, in Ardingley, in south-east England, on October 15, 2009. Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens said Thursday they have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a project to protect all endangered plant species. Seeds from a wild, pink banana are the latest addition to the collection at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, designed to guard against dwindling diversity. The banana from China, musa itinerans, is an important staple for wild elephants and is also useful for breeding new types of the fruit, but is under threat as its jungle habitat is cleared for commercial agriculture. AFP PHOTO/Glyn Kirk
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Crawley, West Sussex, UNITED KINGDOM |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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GLYN KIRK |
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15 Octombrie 2009 |
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2021 x 3000 (1006.68 KB) |
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