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2018.08.24. 오후 4:56
[K-SCIENCE] Marine Seed Bank
A big glass bottle is filled with numerous chunks that look like pink jelly beans.
What are they?
They are seeds of a purple laver variety.
The laver is kept at a low temperature in a laboratory throughout the summer.
There is a big-size abalone in a fish farm.
It is 20 centimeters long.
This is a giant abalone that looks like a horse's hoof. The size of its shells is the biggest among the abalone species.
White recognition chips are attached to the surface of the ear-shaped shells to identify their size and origin.
Like banks, this laboratory stores the seeds of regionally-renowned fish and shellfish varieties.
[Yoo Byeong-Dong, senior researcher, Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion]
"It (The seed bank) plays a role to develop new species with preserved genetic resources, which are not affected by climate change, by using crossbreeding and selection breeding methods."
What are they?
They are seeds of a purple laver variety.
The laver is kept at a low temperature in a laboratory throughout the summer.
There is a big-size abalone in a fish farm.
It is 20 centimeters long.
This is a giant abalone that looks like a horse's hoof. The size of its shells is the biggest among the abalone species.
White recognition chips are attached to the surface of the ear-shaped shells to identify their size and origin.
Like banks, this laboratory stores the seeds of regionally-renowned fish and shellfish varieties.
[Yoo Byeong-Dong, senior researcher, Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion]
"It (The seed bank) plays a role to develop new species with preserved genetic resources, which are not affected by climate change, by using crossbreeding and selection breeding methods."
