Friday, March 12, 2010

  Most diverse repository of crop seeds - the Svalbard Global Seed Vault sets world record


  LONGYEARBYEN, Spitsbergen Island, Norway -- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault , or the Doomsday Vault as the media have nicknamed it, has amassed half a million seed samples , setting the world record for the Most diverse repository of crop seeds .

 Photo: The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world's Most diverse repository of crop seeds . Photo by Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault ( enlarge photo )

 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the ultimate security net for the world's crop diversity. The Seed Vault aims at safeguarding the world’s most important plant genetic resources for food and agriculture with a maximum level of security.

    Genetic diversity is vital for solving the challenges to agriculture which climate change will cause. It is only through using this diversity that scientists can breed new varieties of our crops, able to thrive in dramatically different conditions expected in the future.

   This diversity is stored in seeds, and seeds from all continents are now stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, says Roland von Bothmer, professor of genetics and plant-breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and part of the team responsible for running the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

   The Seed Vault offers free-of-charge back-up for the seed collections held in seed banks around the world. Information on the seeds held in the Vault, and how deposits can be made, is available at the vault website .

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Friday, March 12, 2010


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