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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...
The largest seed in the world is the coco de mer, [1] [2] the seed of a palm tree. [3] It can reach about 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, and weigh up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds).
The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds 1.25 million seed samples of more than 6,000 plant species in an underground facility in the Arctic Circle. Scientists honored as 2024 World Food Prize ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a "doomsday" seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world's crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible. A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust , the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural −6 °C (21 °F) and ...
Two men who were instrumental in the “craziest idea anyone ever had” of creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be honored as the 2024 World ...
Established in 1996, it is the largest seed bank in the world (and will longterm be at least 100 times bigger than Svalbard Global Seed Vault), [17] providing space for the storage of billions of seed samples in a nuclear bomb proof multi-story underground vault. [17] Its ultimate aim being to store every plant species possible.
In October 2009, it reached its 10% goal of banking all the world's wild plant species by adding Musa itinerans, a wild banana, to its seed vault. As estimates for the number of seed bearing plant species have increased, 34,088 wild plant species and 1,980,405,036 seeds in storage as of June 2015 represent over 13% of the world's wild plant ...