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In an effort to support restoration programmes, specialists are developing supplies of seeds and seedlings, maintaining gene banks and sequencing the genomes of indigenous trees and other crops.

为了支持（森林）恢复项目，专家们正在开发种子和幼苗的供应，维护基因库，并对本土树木和其他作物进行基因组测序。

Christopher Kettle, Biodiversity International’s director for forest genetic resources and restoration in Rome, says that the need for infrastructure — things such as mechanisms for collecting and storing seeds, and nurseries to raise seedlings — might be most desperate here because many trees are ‘masting’ species, which don’t produce seeds every year.

国际生物多样性中心驻罗马的森林遗传资源与恢复主任克里斯托弗·凯特尔表示，这里对基础设施——诸如收集和储存种子的机制以及培育幼苗的苗圃——的需求可能最为迫切，因为许多树木属于“大年结实”物种，并非每年都结种子。

Christopher Kettle, Biodiversity International’s director for forest genetic resources and restoration in Rome, says that the need for infrastructure — things such as mechanisms for collecting and storing seeds, and nurseries to raise seedlings — might be most desperate here because many trees are ‘masting’ species, which don’t produce seeds every year.

国际生物多样性中心驻罗马的森林遗传资源与恢复主任克里斯托弗·凯特尔表示，这里对基础设施——诸如收集和储存种子的机制以及培育幼苗的苗圃——的需求可能最为迫切，因为许多树木属于“大年结实”物种，并非每年都结种子。

“Otherwise, you miss the boat, you lose all the seed and you’ve got to wait another seven years,” says Kettle.

“否则，你就会错失良机，失去所有种子，不得不再等七年。”凯特尔说。

People must pay attention to the fact that some kinds of trees do not produce seeds annually.

人们必须注意到，有些种类的树木并非每年都结种子。

The supply of seeds is a tough problem that has to be dealt with.

种子供应是一个必须解决的棘手问题。