| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/07/25, 11:35 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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WASHINGTON — Deep in a mountain on a remote island above the Arctic Circle in Norway,
scientists conserve thousands of varieties of seeds so they can be studied and used for future food needs. The seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault are the backup for other gene banks around the world, including one in Syria that’s been threatened by civil unrest.
On Monday, Earth Day, the director of the trust responsible for the seeds, Marie Haga, spoke about its conservation work, which has been focused lately on saving seeds that growers will need to develop crops in the face of changing growing conditions caused by climate change.
That includes cataloging some of the wild ancestors of the domesticated crops that feed the world today, said Haga, the Norway-based executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust.
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