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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 Svalbard Global Seed Vault is meant as a natural deep freeze to back up the world's gene banks in case of disasters, including nuclear war. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday ...
Since 1984, the Nordic Gene Bank has stored backup Nordic plant germplasm in the form of frozen seeds in Svalbard, over the years depositing more than 10,000 seed samples of more than 2,000 cultivars for 300 different species. In 2006 the construction of the Global Seed Vault, a secure
The Crop Trust joined the Government of Norway and the Nordic Gene Bank in the 2008 establishment of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "fail-safe" facility located at Svalbard, Norway. [23] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world.
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A seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. [1] There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance , nutritional quality, taste, etc. of crops .
Spitsbergen covers an area of 37,673 km 2 (14,546 sq mi), making it the largest island in Norway and the 36th largest in the world. The administrative centre is Longyearbyen . Other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the mining community of Barentsburg , the research community of Ny-Ålesund , and the mining outpost of Sveagruva .
Fowler was the focus of the award-winning 2013 documentary Seeds of Time. [38] The film centers on Fowler's work to protect the world's food supply with the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the challenges facing seed protection and genetic diversity efforts as a result of climate change. [39] He was also featured in the 2013 documentary Seed Battles.