#conservationorchards — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #conservationorchards, aggregated by home.social.
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Noah’s arks for fruit trees: How conservation #orchards preserve and boost biodiversity
https://theconversation.com/noahs-arks-for-fruit-trees-how-conservation-orchards-preserve-and-boost-biodiversity-242421"Unlike #SeedBanks, these collections provide immediate access to the necessary materials (pollen, flowers) for crossbreeding in varietal improvement programmes, as well as for #reforestation and the #conservation of wild relatives in #forests. #ConservationOrchards also serve as open-air laboratories to study the response of fruit #trees to #climate conditions and parasite attacks"