Seed bank may refer to:
- Seedbank, a repository of preserved seeds
- The store of viable plant seed in an ecosystem; for example:
- Soil seed bank, the viable seed present in the soil;
- Canopy seed bank, the viable seed stored in the canopy of a serotinous tree or shrub.
Famous quotes containing the words seed and/or bank:
“I don’t think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don’t think it’s the nature of any man to be monogamous.... Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.”
—Marlon Brando (b. 1924)
“The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year’s seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)