Syria's Arctic seed vault relocated to Morocco, Lebanon
Rabat, Morocco (UPI) Oct 19, 2015 - Nearly 40,000 seeds originally from Syria have been safely transferred from a so-called seed vault, located on Norway's Svalbard archipelago, inside the Arctic Circle, to Morocco and Lebanon. The Global Seed Vault, sometimes called the "doomsday vault," holds the seeds of some 860,000 crop and plant varieties. The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - which ... more
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