Website review: Arctic seed vault opens doors for 1...
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•16 reviews since Feb 26, 2008
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knitterr rated 5 months ago- and this is a "vault" type of seed storage site: just plain safe and cozy, very long-term storage. many other sites are for research plus storage...and research into how-to-store-mitochondria, because the idea is to be able to grow an undamaged seed should it be needed. www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6942320
- accessko rated 5 months ago
- Very big backup for our nature!
- Khabira rated 5 months ago
- /very cool site about a vault of seeds found in the artic. It is amazing.
- javamanjoe rated 5 months ago
- Arctic Circle Seed Bank opened it's doors today. Being the World's largest Seed Bank with 100 Million seeds saved from around the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from unique varieties of major African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato, the first deposits into the seed vault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world.
- dethmonger rated 5 months ago
- "Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seeds" A global seedbank, located and built with the future in mind. Who says people can't think long-term? With the chances we as a species are taking with our environment, this only makes sense. Think of this as "do-overs", a video game style reset button available if we screw everything up beyond repair. A pipe dream of no practical value? As commercially grown crops become limited in variety - a phenomenon caused by conventional chemical farming and food distribution systems as practiced currently - they draw on an ever-shrinking pool of genes. Historically, this has on occasion had devastating consequences. In 1970, almost 85% of the US corn fields were planted with one type of corn, called Texas cytoplasmic male sterile (Tcms) corn. Unfortunately, this type of corn was highly susceptible to a new type (race) of the pathogenic fungus, B. maydis race T. A combination of very wet weather conditions and the high susceptibility of the Tcms corn to B. maydis race T lead to rapid spread of the pathogen and a devastating epidemic. The losses of corn were catastrophic, reaching as high as 50-100% in some areas of the US. (for full text scroll down to Southern Corn Leaf Blight) This is such a serious issue that all major governments (the US included) maintain germplasm banks of commercially important crops, knowing the genetic variation in crops actually planted isn't diverse enough to stave off another disaster. Also relevant is the morally reprehensible looting of our common genetic heritage by agribusiness giants like Monsanto, that rush to patent plant varieties which are genetically 99% identical to those developed by countless generations of farmers throughout time. By inserting one little change, a company like Monsanto can "own" a crop. Regular farmers will only be able to legally grow it if they have access to pre-modified seed, and since most seed is being supplied by an oligopoly which also develops the patented varieties... Any way you want to consider it, this global seedbank is a good idea.
- maddski rated 5 months ago
- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries.
- tetrapod78 rated 5 months ago
- Seed vault looking out. Credit: Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust The loss of crop plant species may not stop or even slow down but a seed archive will preserve a set point. One familiar example is the recent decline from thousands to hundreds of kinds of apples. Bio-diversity is fragile. This remote location in Norway's Arctic just received 100 million seeds from over a 100 nations with a variety of soils and climates.
- gmalonzo rated 5 months ago
- Don't forget the stoners of the future.
