It brought the total deposits in the snow-covered vault - with a capacity of 4.5 million - to 940,000. The 50,000 samples deposited Wednesday were from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, the US, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Britain. "The reconstituted seeds will play a critical role in developing climate-resilient crops for generations," Abousabaa said. 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 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. 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. 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 center that focuses on improving agriculture in dry zones. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gene bank built underground on the isolated island in a permafrost zone some 1,000 kilometers (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. He was already programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. William Engdahl Global Research, DecemOne thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. "The crops that we eat today may have come from that nameless flower on the kerbside.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. 'Doomsday Seed Vault' in the Arctic Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t by F. "Our job is to identify these one by one and letting people know how important they are," she went on. "One might ask why is that wild flower on the kerbside important?" she said. She and her team collect samples and carry out a meticulous and extensive process including X-ray tests and trial plantations before seeds are catalogued and stored in the seed vault. Research on wild plant seeds is "lacking tremendously", said Na Chae-sun, a senior researcher at the Baekdudaegan National Arboretum. It was a "race against time" to identify them before they disappeared, it added. Wild plants hold promise as future medicines, fuels and food, said the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in a report last year, but around two-fifths of them are threatened with extinction, largely due to habitat destruction and climate change. is declining faster than at any time in human history." ![]() It warned that farming was likely to be less resilient against climate change, pests and pathogens as a result, adding: "The biosphere, upon which humanity as a whole depends. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many crop relatives in the wild that could provide genetic diversity to help long-term food security "lack effective protection", according to a recent UN report.
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