Buried seed vault guards thousands of crop varieties - -
By Eleanor Fausold
Buried seed vault guards thousands of crop varieties
The remote, frozen Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores more than 740,000 sample of seeds that contain genetic treasures such as heat resistance, drought tolerance, or disease and pest resistance.
By Eleanor Fausold, Nourishing the Planet / June 21, 2012
The Christian Science Monitor
Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Fund, holds seeds inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The 'doomsday' vault could one day protect millions of varieties of agriculture seeds from man-made or natural disasters.
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