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Viva Brighton Issue #77 July 2019

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THE WAY WE WORK<br />

This month Adam Bronkhorst has been photographing people at the<br />

Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst: a growing collection of seeds from around<br />

the world, aiming to provide a safety net for species at risk of extinction.<br />

He asked them: Which plant do you think is the most remarkable and why?<br />

adambronkhorst.com | 07879 401333<br />

Ellie Wilding, Technical Officer on the Crop Wild Relatives Project<br />

‘Musa acuminata is the wild cousin of the bananas we eat today.<br />

Wild bananas have a wealth of genetic variation that can help cultivated<br />

bananas be more resistant to disease outbreaks.’

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