The astonishing story of seed longevity, and what this means for biodiversity and our future foods.
Fiona McMillan-Webster is a Brisbane-based science writer
with a Bachelor of Science in physics and a PhD in biophysics. She
has written science stories for National Geographic, Forbes, COSMOS
magazine, Australian Geographic, and other publications. Her
writing has also appeared in the Best Australian Science Writing
anthologies for 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2021. She was runner up for
the UNSW Bragg Press Prize for Science Writing 2016.
In addition, Fiona has worked behind the scenes to help produce
scientific content across a variety of other media. This has
included the development of panel discussions for the World Science
Festival Brisbane, as well as research for factual TV series such
as the ABC's Ask the Doctor.
*Ebook available through all major etailers*
The expansive story of one of nature's great miracles - exploring
not just the future of a plant, a species or an ecosystem but of
our own ongoing survival.
*Danielle Clode*
Exciting, fast-paced and beautifully told. The sleeping seed has
found a powerful voice in this book, transcending history and
geography, in a rip-roaring tale of human endeavour to feed, clothe
and cure a human population of nearly 8 billion people.
*Paul Smith*
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