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Climate change, accustomed disasters, added pollution, overexploitation of soils or animal arrest in the accustomed habitat.
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There are abounding threats adverse Portugal’s altered mix of flora, but the Berry Coffer A. L. Belo Correia, in the centermost of the burghal of Lisbon, has been animate back 2001 to conserve and assure the present so that it can one day save the future.
In this bank, the deposits are added than 3,700 berry samples, accumulation added than 1200 breed and subspecies of aboriginal Portuguese plants, that are kept in a ‘safe’ in the anatomy of a four-square-meter refrigerator.
With temperatures as low as -18º C, this behemothic refrigerator preserves added than a third of Portuguese flora and about 60 percent of the adequate breed of acreage Portugal.
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Everything happens beneath the administration of the babysitter Maria Manuela Sim-Sim and her abettor Domitila Brocas, who backpack out the action of identification, assay and preservation.
“This is not the alone one, but it’s the oldest seeds coffer of aboriginal breed in Portugal and is a civic affiliate of ENSCONET-The European Native Berry Attention Network, the European bunch that brings calm 30 seeds banks. The coffer applies all-embracing standards for the accumulating and attention of seeds to aerate quality, constancy and abiogenetic diversity. Thousands of seeds of a distinct breed can be kept animate for tens or hundreds of years”, says the curator.
As in a acceptable bank, altered audience end up acute altered forms of treatment.
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In the berry bank, likened to a array of Noah’s ark, the analysis of plants determines the process.
According to Maria Manuela Sim-Sim, the samples, which are stored in bottle tubes covered with affection and silica gel, are disconnected into three areas: orthodox, average and recalcitrant.
“Orthodox seeds absorb their activity over a continued aeon of time beneath attention conditions, that is low baptize agreeable and temperatures beneath zero, while contrary seeds abide alone fractional dehydration and never beneath 18-45 % or temperatures able-bodied beneath 0° C. Average seeds, however, do not accord to any of the categories declared and can abide low baptize contents, but do not bear abrogating temperatures”.
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In a country characterized by the assortment of its flora, area Atlantic, European, Mediterranean and African breed coexist, Maria Manuela Sim-Sim warns that “loss of biodiversity is a reality” and that “there is a cogent allotment of species” that face the blackmail of extinction. Given the abundant risks, the babysitter of the Seeds Coffer A.L. Belo Correia adds that “safeguarding this assortment for the abiding approaching is an more burning challenge” for the Portuguese.
Thus, the approaching requires “approaches that accommodate the protection, development and acceptable use of accustomed resources” of Portugal. “I would like to ability 2020 with 75 percent of the threatened flora safeguarded”.
By João Paulo Godinho
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