Slide Show: Seed Saviors
Kim Hummer, research leader and curator at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository, with a young quince tree.
Photography by Gregory Miller
Seeds of a Marion blackberry.
Photography by Gregory Miller
Joseph Postman, plant pathologist and curator at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository, holds a young pear tree.
Photography by Gregory Miller
Hazelnuts, which make up one of the repository’s eight major living crop collections.
Photography by Gregory Miller
Mint clones growing in vitro.
Photography by Gregory Miller
A small pear-tree clone shows its graft just above the pruning marks.
Photography by Gregory Miller
Seeds of a blackberry relative.
Photography by Gregory Miller
Plants recently imported from foreign countries are grown in the repository’s quarantine greenhouse, where they are isolated from other related species until certified to be free of pests or diseases by an inspector from the Oregon Department of
Photography by Gregory Miller
The Rubus greenhouse, where each pair of pots contains a unique raspberry or blackberry clone.
Photography by Gregory Miller
