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This time of year, the last rays of sun give Svalbard a magical blue light. And both the Slovak and Norwegian Ministers of Agriculture could enjoy it as they attended the first ever Slovak seed deposit. The seeds from the Slovak genebank were in good company as they were carried into Svalbard Global Seed Vault along with seeds from Poland, Sudan and ICARDA.

  • First Slovak seeds deposited in Seed Vault

    28. October 2019

    This time of year, the last rays of sun give Svalbard a magical blue light. And both the Slovak and …

  • “New chapter in history” as Poland signs depositor’s agreement

    15. October 2019

    The Polish flag next to the Norwegian, thick agreement papers and a room full of anticipation. As the head of …

  • Seed Vault named one of the 50 most influential projects

    7. October 2019

    The organisation Project Management Institute has named Svalbard Global Seed Vault the 10th most influential project during the last 50 …

  • Withdrawal of ICARDA Aleppo seeds accomplished

    11. September 2019

    By mid-August, the third and last part of the seeds deposited by the ICARDA gene bank in Aleppo, Syria were …

  • Second seed deposit from SPGRC this year

    26. August 2019

    After depositing 1158 new seeds accessions this week, the SPGRC gene bank has secured in total 5244 seed samples in …

  • Long travelled seeds in place in the Seed Vault

    17. June 2019

    The second regular Seed Vault opening this year was accomplished during the first week of June. Two gene banks deposited …

  • Seeds from unique forage collection deposited in the Seed Vault

    6. June 2019

    Seeds from the world’s arguably most diverse and unique forage collection were deposited in Svalbard Global Seed Vault today. In …

  • SPGRC in Zambia Urge all the World’s Gene banks to Use the Seed Vault

    27. March 2019

    This week, NordGen carried new seeds into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The deposit comes from the regional gene bank …

  • Close to 90% of the ICRISAT collection duplicated

    24. January 2019

    ICRISAT is among the gene banks that have deposited the largest numbers of seed samples in the Seed Vault. “At …

  • India eager to deposit more seeds in Svalbard

    7. January 2019

    India has one of the largest plant germplasm collections in the world, hosted in the National Gene Bank at ICAR …

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