Viability of the fungus in seeds is limited; typically, after a year or two of seed storage the fungal endophyte mycelium has died, and seeds germinated will result in plants that are endophyte-free.

Scientists are investigating the role of flooding and light availability on pondberry at a large-scale impoundment facility, and they have set up controlled experiments to study competition, seed germination, seed storage, and seed persistence in the soil seed bank.

The seed storage is problematic.

Their burrows, however, are usually excavated in silty, sandy, or gravelly soil and are used for refuges, seed storage, and neonatal care.

Additional efforts focus on a variety of agricultural aspects such as proper seed storage, natural resource management, value chains, the benefits of using improved seed, and appropriate machine use and access.

A set of conditions must be met in order for long-term seed storage to be evolutionarily viable for a plant:

Investigations into long-term seed storage have shown B. acanthopoda to store well under standard genebank storage conditions.

Better seed storage and germination ability (and hence a smaller requirement to retain harvested crop for next year's seed) is another 20th century technological innovation.

A sign on a vast metal shed, used for seed storage, told us we were at Darfield.

To do that they needed to go into the nutrient pumping section next, then into the seed storage which connected.