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The world's 'doomsday' seed banks could be a way to replant our planet after disaster, but only if their contents survive the years.

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CAIRO/GAZA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - A group of farmers has been working to preserve Gaza's native crops by rebuilding a local seed bank that was destroyed during Israel's war in the enclave and by encouraging Palestinians to cultivate what little viable land they have left. Most of Gaza's pre-war farmland lies in an area under Israeli military occupation. Gaza's entire 2 million population is penned into around 30% of the tiny enclave, much of which was laid to waste by two years of Israeli bombardment. That includes Gaza farmer Salama Muhanna's "Bank of Seeds", which he says was destroyed in Qarara town, south of the enclave, in early 2024, several months after the Hamas-led attacks that precipitated Israel's military assault. Before the war, Muhanna said, "we had refrigerators, solar power, a dryer, a seed-cleaning and sorting machine - we had everything." The bank had once held 70 tons of stocks for 42 different crops, including black-eyed peas, watermelon and sage, all staples of Palestinian agricultural heritage, he said. Muhanna, 71, said he and his team of farmers have rebuilt a modest stock of some 32 local seeds in recent months, through contributions from farmers who worked with the bank before...

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In an era of global environmental change, the persistence of populations in newly-unsuitable conditions and the establishment of new populations following disturbance are key in determining changes in biodiversity over time and in space. For vascular plants, the soil seed bank can play a vital role in both processes. Soil seed banks are the communities of persistent seeds being naturally stored in the soil that contribute to vegetation regeneration after disturbance1,2. Plant species that form seed banks do so as part of a life-history strategy that allows for the buffering of temporal environmental heterogeneity3,4,5, and as such, seed banks are an important component for understanding plant (meta)population and community dynamics6,7. Despite the potential advantage of producing seeds that persist in the soil, not all species contribute to soil seed banks. Instead, the ability to form seed banks is a functional strategy for plants to (re)establish and maintain populations, which has evolved in response to both predictable and unpredictable disturbance regimes8. The species that do form seed banks also vary in terms of the number of seeds produced, and the longevity of seeds in the soil9. The disturbances that have contributed to the development of seed banking are not randomly distributed...

Infrequent cultivation implemented purposefully to renovate and refresh soils can boost crop competitiveness and impact the weed seedbank.