Recently,restoration and reclamation of vegetation in degraded wetland ecosystem have become a hot subject.As a reservoir of past plants,seed bank has huge potential for natural re-generation of wetland vegetation.In this review,we provided an overview of the major researches and progresses in the wetland seed bank formation,size and spatial pattern,species composition and relationships between seed bank and standing vegetation at home and abroad.Some case studies of wetland restoration using soil seed bank are introduced here,especially focused on main factors affecting seedling emergence of soil seed bank,safe sites for establishment of seedling and restoration potential of soil seed bank.We further discussed the main problems presented in the wetland re-vegetation from soil seed bank at present research and its possible direction of future studies.This review is expected to be a key reference for the development in the theory and practical techniques of restoration of wetland vegetations from soil seed bank.