Our Mission
To establish and curate a research seed bank for the scientific community. This resource will be available over the next half century to study evolution in wild plant populations across time and space using the resurrection approach.
This project was established with funding from National Science Foundation
DEB-1142764
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Project Baseline in the News
Resurrected seeds to track evolutionNature, March 2016
Project Baseline, an unprecedented resource to study evolution across space and time. American Journal of Botany 103:154-173.
New seed bank for plant evolution studies
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, October 2015 (pg 407)
An interview with Project Baseline post-doc Heather Schneider
Nature, July 2015
The Lazarus plants: why 3 million seeds are being sent to cold storage for 50 years
Atlas Obscura, July 2015
Seeds and climate change
UMD Bridge, Winter 2012
Banking seeds for future evolutionary scientists
Science, September 2011
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