![]() ![]() It brought the total deposits in the snow-covered vault - with a capacity of 4.5 million - to 940,000. At the very edge of civilisation, on a rugged island north of Norway, sits a strange, jutting building that houses the most important collection of seeds in the world, stored away in the event of catastrophe. The 50,000 samples deposited Wednesday were from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, the U.S., Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Britain. Enter the Arctic Doomsday Vault, a final safeguard for the worlds biodiversity. "The reconstituted seeds will play a critical role in developing climate-resilient crops for generations," Abousabaa said. The agency borrowed the seeds three years ago because it could not access its gene bank of 141,000 specimens in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, and so was unable to regenerate and distribute them to breeders and researchers. Speaking from Svalbard, Aly Abousabaa, the head of the International Center for Agricultural Research, said Thursday that borrowing and reconstituting the seeds before returning them had been a success and showed that it was possible to "find solutions to pressing regional and global challenges." The specimens consisted of seed samples for some of the world's most vital food sources like potato, sorghum, rice, barley, chickpea, lentil and wheat. A doomsday vault nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn. They were the first to retrieve seeds from the vault in 2015 before returning new ones after multiplying and reconstituting them. The latest specimens sent to the bank, located on the Svalbard archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, included more than 15,000 reconstituted samples from an international research centre that focuses on improving agriculture in dry zones. Now holds more than 1.2 million seed samples OSLO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A vault built on an Arctic island to preserve the worlds crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive. A doomsday vault nestled deep in the Arctic received 60 000 new seed samples on Tuesday 25 February, including Prince Charles’ cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gene bank built underground on the isolated island in a permafrost zone some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the North Pole, was opened in 2008 as a master backup to the world's other seed banks, in case their deposits are lost. HELSINKI - Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops. ![]()
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