Arctic Seed Vault becomes world's most diverse collection of crop diversity

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 21:35 in Biology & Nature

Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault is receiving this week thousands of new seeds that will push its collection to more than half a million unique samples, making it the most diverse assemblage of crop diversity ever amassed anywhere in the world.

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