Trust to save food crops from extinction
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 13:21
in Earth & Climate
ROME, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Italy's Global Crop Diversity Trust says it has collected about 53,000 seed samples of the 100,000 varieties of food crops it wants to save from extinction.
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