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:
“On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:3.