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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.

John McConnico/AP/File

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