Preserving plant diversity: Botanical Garden seed project prominently featured in FAS article

A recent article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) newspaper focuses on wild plant conservation – and prominently features the work of Prof. Dr. Sabine Zachgo and her team at the Botanical Garden in Osnabrück.

Under the guidance of Director Prof. Dr. Sabine Zachgo, the Botanical Garden of Osnabrück University is making a valuable contribution to the preservation of biodiversity: as part of the ‘Wildpflanzen-Schutz Deutschland’ (WIPs-De) project, seeds from wild plants are collected and stored in deep freeze. A recent article in the FAS newspaper focuses on German efforts to save plants – and goes into detail about the work of Zachgo and her team.

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