Longevity of seeds stored in a genebank: species characteristics

By C. Walters, L. Wheeler, Judith M. Grotenhuis. Seed Science Research, 2005

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Structural mechanics of seed deterioration: Standing the test of time (2010, background): “However, our limited understandng of the mechanisms by which environmental conditions control eed aging rates prevents us from reliably predicting longevity nder a range of environmental conditions [6,31,34].”
The Vulnerability of Plant Genetic Resources Conserved Ex Situ (2017, background): “According to the predicted longevity of seeds stored in genebanks for various plant species (Walters et al., 2005), many germplasm accessions collected before 1980 are at risk of losing seed viability, and those acquired after 1980 may require timely viability testing for field regeneration.”
Prolonging the longevity of ex situ conserved seeds by storage under anoxia (2014, background): “…aluminium foil bags that are used for the vacuum storage of seeds of, among others, the collections of the Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands (CGN), and those managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (Walters et al., 2005; van Treuren et al., 2013) was also tested.”
Unifying perspectives of some mechanisms basic to desiccation tolerance across life forms (2006, background): “1; Vertucci and Farrant, 1995; Pammenter and Berjak, 1999; Kranner and Birtić, 2005; Walters et al., 2005b).”
Germination capacity and viability of threatened species collections in seed banks (2010, background): “Walters et al. (2005) have quantified storage performance of 42,000 seed accessions representing 276 species within the USDA National Plant Germplams System (NPGS) collection.”
High viability recorded in ultra-dry seeds of 37 species of Brassicaceae after almost 40 years of storage (2007, methodology): “Comparing our results to those obtained by Walters et al. (2005) for similar storage periods, we could conclude that the Brassicaceae seeds studied in the present work have generally shown much higher longevity (average germination 98.4% of the initial value against only 54.8%).”
Biotechnology and Conservation of Plant Biodiversity (2013, background): “has been estimated that half-lives for the seeds of 276 species stored for an average of 38 years under cool (−5 °C) and cold (25 years at −18 °C) temperatures was >100 years only for 61 (22%) of the species [113].”
The longevity of crop seeds stored under ambient conditions (2009, methodology): “A similar correlation was also found by Walters et al. (2005) but the relationship did not hold when families with varying chemical composition, such as legumes, were considered separately in those studies.”
Seed storage: maintaining seed viability and vigor for restoration use (2020, background): “Several studies describe the relative longevity of seeds in medium- and long-term gene bank storage (Walters et al. 2005; Hay et al. 2013; Ellis et al. 2018).”
Physiology of Desiccation-Sensitive (Recalcitrant) Seeds and the Implications for Cryopreservation (2013, background): “Storage life span of high-quality seeds under these conditions is of the order of decades and possibly centuries, the period depending on the species (Walters et al. 2005).”
The reduction of seed-specific dehydrins reduces seed longevity in Arabidopsis thaliana (2011, background): “Orthodox seeds are capable of surviving the removal of most of their cellular water and can be stored in the dry state for long periods, ranging from decades to centuries, depending on the species (Priestley et al., 1985; Walters et al., 2005) and storage conditions (Roberts, 1960; Walters, 1998).”
A review of factors that influence the production of quality seed for long-term conservation in genebanks (2017, background): “However, Vertucci and Roos (1993), Walters (2003) and Walters et al. (2005) reported that the optimum moisture content and the optimal drying protocols for storage vary with storage temperature and that drying seeds at a relative humidity lower than 15 % could be counter-productive to seed…”
Genetic mapping within the wheat D genome reveals QTL for germination, seed vigour and longevity, and early seedling growth (2009, background): “Both inter- and intraspecific variability have been demonstrated in model and crop plant species (Walters et al. 2005), and genes responsible for differences in seed longevity have been identified in A.”
Ex Situ and In Situ Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity: Major Advances and Research Needs (2010, background): “Current research is showing that there exists variability in seed longevity for different species being conserved under similar conditions (Probert et al., 2009; Nagel and Borner, 2009; Crawford et al., 2007; Walters et al., 2005).”