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Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again

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By Alanna Rebelo, Karen Joan Esler, Patricia Holmes, Tony Rebelo
| TimesLIVE Verified
19 March 2025 - 04:30 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. The replica of the winning display at 'Chelsea Flowers in Stanford'. Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds.
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Lost fynbos seeds from underground 'time capsules' in South Africa can grow again, study finds

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By Alanna Rebelo, Karen Joan Esler, Patricia Holmes, Tony Rebelo
| Phys.org Verified
Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds. Our research in the Cape Floristic Region discovered that fynbos seed banks that have survived over a century of pine plantations are viable. This means that seeds are able to germinate if the land is restored. The paper is published in the journal Plants, People, Planet.
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Scaling-up ecological understanding with remote sensing and causal inference

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By Elisa Van Cleemput, Peter Adler, Katharine Nash Suding, Alanna Rebelo
| Cell Press Verified
1Leiden University College The Hague, Leiden University, 2595 DG Den Haag, The Netherlands 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 3Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA 4Water Science Unit, Natural Resources and Engineering, Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 5Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University,...
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