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"New seeds ... are taking us over the milestone of half a million samples," Cary Fowler, head of the Global Crop Diversity Trust which runs the vault with the Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center in Sweden, told Reuters.
A statement said thousands of new arrivals this week made the vault "the most diverse assemblage of crop diversity ever amassed anywhere in the world." It overtakes the diversity in a U.S. national gene bank in Fort Collins, Colorado. …Only about 150 crops are grown widely around the world but all come in a wide range of varieties -- potatoes, for instance, come in an array of sizes and colors…..
The entrance to the global seed vault in Svalbard, shot by Svalbard Global Seed Vault/Mari Tefre, Wikimedia Commons
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