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CPC Seed Longevity Study
August 21, 2024
We are delighted to invite you to attend a free 90-minute webinar sharing insights from a four-year research study evaluating the survival of seeds from CPC's genebanked collections of wild rare plants native to the US. The study assesses viability of seeds of over 100 species that were placed in freezer (-20C) storage between 1985-2010. Most of the seeds show no signs of deterioration -- a testament that seed banking offers an efficient, cost-effective strategy for ex situ conservation. However, genebanking seeds from wild species presents many challenges, and the study applies some novel approaches to measure the progress of aging, namely fragmentation of RNA and biophysical behavior of lipids. Changes of these parameters were inferred by comparisons with freshly harvested seeds from the same population and will be used to predict longevity under genebanking conditions. This research was conducted collaboratively by the Center for Plant Conservation, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, and 24 CPC Conservation Partners from throughout the United States.
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Webinar - register at link above
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Events at Smith

Exhibition: Here, Now
August 30, 2024 through July 13, 2025
From August 30, 2024 until July 13, 2024, The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) will host a solo exhibition of art by Younes Rahmoun—one of Morocco’s most important artists—in partnership with the Botanic Garden of Smith College and Arts Afield at CEEDS. The exhibition will explore how Rahmoun’s place-based sculptures and installations have, for the last 25 years, created space for viewers to be in community, together in the here and now. Foremost among the exhibition's themes are nature, place, and landscape; spirituality; migration as a consequence of de/colonization; and the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm. The public can visit various elements of he exhibition- on Smith Campus at the SCMA and the Botanic Garden- and at Smith's Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station.
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Smith College Museum of Art and the MacLeish Field Station