The Royal Botanic Garden Seed Bank, located within the Garden at Tal Rumman, the first collection of seeds was collected in 2009 from naturally growing plants within the Garden, which make up more than a third of the total species in Jordan.
As well as providing space for storing thousands of seed samples, the Royal Botanic Garden's Seed Bank includes facilities for seed treatment.
The garden's engineers have received hands-on training at the Millennium Seed Bank, which is the world's largest off-site program focusing on global plant life facing extinction, and the most underutilized plants of the future. At the Royal Botanic Garden, we have seed collection policies. processing and storing them to create the best preserved seed batches.
Why do we store seeds?
The Seed Bank is one of the Royal Botanic Garden's ex situ plant conservation programmes. Our work is dedicated to the native plants of Jordan, and focuses on the native plants of Jordan; The plants used in the development of the Royal Botanic Garden are facing extinction.
Botanists at the Royal Botanic Garden carefully plan annual expeditions, locate target plants and collect seed samples from all over Jordan using the best procedures and tools. for life, diversity, etc.), which is essential to maximizing the potential for use of specimens for research, habitat re-establishment and restoration
To this day, the Royal Botanic Garden has collected more than 16% of Jordan's native plant species. The seed bank is currently storing seeds in an active seed store for use within the next 5-10 years, mainly for use in habitat re-establishment and restoration. The total amount of seed accessions in the seed bank is over 1,200 accessions made up of more than 400 species.
How do we store our seeds?
Most of the seeds are dry and do not need special treatment before storage. However, some seeds first require curing in the oven or are kept for a period of time in an incubator before being stored in a seed bank refrigerator.
For short-term preservation, all seeds are kept in a freezer at temperatures between 0°C and -10°C. percentage. Long-term storage requires temperatures as cold as -30°C.
And our seed stock is tested every year for viability through a germination test. Stocks are constantly updated and stocked with fresh seeds.