Old seeds from VU Hortus Botanicus tested for germination, in: Aeons & Aeons {#1} seed bank. Grow installation at Zone2Source in back room of Glass House (Het Glazen Huis) in Amstelpark, January 12 – February 23, 2014. With kind thanks to: Plant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences.Close-up Solanum lycopersicum ‘Moneymaker’ (tomato). Tomato and Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) seeds from SILS Plant Physiology lab, seeded in parallel with the old VU Hortus Botanicus seeds.Preparing VU Hortus Botanicus seeds with numbers #24, #25, #64, #85, #167, #168, #196, #213, #247, and Jatropha multifida, supervised by Dorota Kawa, PhD student at Plant Physiology, research team Dr Christa Testerink, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), University of Amsterdam, January 14, 2014VU Hortus Botanicus seeds sterilized by soaking in 70% ethanol, 20% bleach, and 5% water, and ready to be shaken for 10 minutes on the Vortex-Genie 2. At Plant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), January 14, 2014VU Hortus Botanicus seeds with number #24 placed in the agar petri dishes with nutrients. First: 2 days in cold room, and after that to the grow room at Plant Physiology, SILS, January 14, 2014Access door to seed bank in back room of the Glass House (Zone2Source) in Amstelpark Amsterdam, Aeons & Aeons {#1} seed bank, January 12 – February 23, 2014Panorama photo of seed bank in back room of the Glass HouseDrawers with old VU Hortus Botanicus seedsGrow room installed at Zone2Source, back room Het Glazen Huis in Amstelpark: stacked agar plates, remains from SILS (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) salt tolerance experiments with Arabidopsis
