“It is one of our oldest collections, and it is especially appropriate to be placing it in the Seed Vault this year, the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development.” “We are delighted to be placing this alpine wheat collection in the safe-keeping of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault,” said Andreas Börner, head of the IPK genebank. There was also a unique collection of common wheat collected in the Austrian alpine region in the 1920s which IPK will be depositing. The deposit from NordGen, the genebank of Nordic countries, also contained some interesting plants from mountainous areas, including a Norwegian landrace of rye introduced from Sweden in the 16th century that was previously grown for ‘slash-and-burn’ agriculture in eastern and southern Norway and rescued just before it disappeared. “The collection covers cereals, oilseeds, pseudocereals and legumes, both landraces and modern varieties.” “All of our seed samples originate from Slovakia, and most of them are from mountainous areas,” said Rene Hauptvogel, a researcher from the Research Institute of Plant Production Piestany in Slovakia. “But including new species among our deposit is not unusual for us – with 2,600 species in the collection we are one of the most diverse genebanks in the world.” MORE THAN 1,500 METERS ABOVE THE SEAĢ022 is the United Nations’ International Year of Mountain Development, and this is well reflected among the seed samples deposited. “Our shipment includes more than 200 seed samples directly related to the Crop Wild Relatives Project,” says Alan Humphries, curator of the APG. This 11-year project, funded by the Government of Norway, collected and conserved more than 4,500 seed samples of some 320 crop wild relative species in genebanks around the world and recently ended in 2021. The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Germany and the Australian Pastures Genebank (APG) deposited 150 species that were not previously represented in the Seed Vault.Īmong them are wild relatives of key crops that were collected as part of the Crop Trust-led Crop Wild Relatives Project. Photo: LM Salazar/Crop Trust NEW PLANT SPECIES FIND A HOME IN THE SEED VAULT Some of the 39 total boxes containing seeds from Germany and Morocco waiting to be brought into the Vault chambers for storage. Without the Seed Vault, we would have lost all the diversity the ICARDA genebank held and shared from its former location in Syria.” “It is the product of a lot of hard work over the past few years, which started with us setting up the new active collections in Lebanon and Morocco. “We are delighted to be making this fresh deposit to the Seed Vault,” said Athanasios Tsivelikas, who manages the ICARDA collections in Morocco. This brings their total holding in the Seed Vault to more than 100,000 seed samples, close to what it was before they retrieved seeds from the Seed Vault in 2015, 20 to rebuild the collection that was lost due to the Syrian Civil War. The largest deposit came from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), with 6,336 seed samples. “And in depositing, these countries and collectors are supplying humanity with the building blocks of our future food supply.” If you would like to financially support our channel and farm, you can shop through our Amazon affiliate link, which will earn us a small commission at no additional cost to you here: amzn.to/2NcCBZ4Īlso, sometimes I link Amazon Affiliate links in the description.“By safeguarding duplicates of invaluable seed collections, the Seed Vault is an insurance policy for seed collections around the world,” said Stefan Schmitz, Executive Director of the Crop Trust.
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