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Rare, Unique Seeds Arrive at Svalbard Vault, as Crises Threaten World Crop Collections
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~ Uncle Russ
ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2011) — The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) celebrated its third anniversary February 24 with the arrival of seeds for rare lima beans, blight-resistant cantaloupe, and progenitors of antioxidant-rich red tomatoes from Peru and the Galapagos Islands. The arrival of these collections, including many drought- and flood-resistant varieties, comes at a time when natural and human-made risks to agriculture have reinforced the critical need to secure all the world’s food crop varieties.
Rare, Unique Seeds Arrive at Svalbard Vault, as Crises Threaten World Crop Collections
Tags: crop, seeds, Svalbard Vault
