10,000 Korean grain native seeds, permanently preserved in Svalbard's International Seed Storage

10,000 resources of Korean native seeds owned by the Rural Development Administration are deposited and permanently preserved in the Svalbard International Seed Storage facility, an international plant seed storage facility in the Norwegian Svalbard Islands. This is the second time since 2008, the first Asian country to donate over 13,000 resources of 33 native seeds. Among the resources collected and proliferated and evaluated by the Agricultural Genetic Resource Center since the 1980s, the secondly deposited indigenous seeds are 10,000 resources of 18 crops and 21 species selected in the order of high germination rate. The 18 crops are kidney beans, oats, mung beans, doldongbu, dolkong, eastern part, buckwheat, wheat, rice, barley, new red beans, red beans, peas, swallow beans, small red beans, beans, red beans, and rye. With this deposit, Korea's native resources that are duplicated and preserved in the Svalbard International Seed Storage will increase to 23,185 resources of 44 ...