It brought the total deposits in the snow-covered vault - with a capacity of 4.5 million - to 940,000. Nearly 10 years after a 'doomsday' seed vault opened on an Arctic island off Norway, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections ranging from India, the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe to the U.S. 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. 2016 file photo of an exterior view of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the secure seed bank on Svalbard, Norway. "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. On Tuesday, 30 gene banks deposited seeds, also including offerings from India, Mali and Peru. They were the first to retrieve seeds from the vault in 2015 before returning new ones after multiplying and reconstituting them. This Article is From Dont Panic, Humanitys Doomsday Seed Vault Is Probably Still Safe Currently, the vault holds nearly 900,000 seed samples, from maize and sorghum from Africa and. Dubbed the doomsday vault, the facility lies on the island of Spitsbergen in the archipelago of Svalbard, halfway between Norway and the North Pole, and is only opened a few times a year in order to preserve the seeds inside. 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. In this media landscape, its not surprising that Oreo commissioned a 'doomsday' vault to preserve the iconic cookies in case of an asteroid. 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.
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