Posted February 27, 2015
Our seed varieties have drastically dwindled in the 80 years between 1903 and 1983, as evidenced by this infographic; A comparison of seeds offered in comercial seed houses from 1903 to the seeds offered in the National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983 (now renamed National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation) showed that about 93 percent of seeds had been lost in 80 years. View here: