Do you see a plant library? This is the usda national clonal germplasm repository in oregon corvallis. They hold and maintain a large number of plants and network culture. This is the strawberry strawberry room. Maintaining plant material lives far more time and space consuming than storing seeds in the freezer. But it is important to keep both valuable and wild types of life valuable and easily accessible to grow breeders or research institutions to use.
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