Spain will deposit more than a thousand seeds in World Seed Bank of Svalbard, the plant Noah's Ark

A team of researchers from the Center for Plant Genetic Resources of the INIA-CSIC has selected more than a thousand plant varieties from the national collection that will be deposited in the World Seed Bank of Svalbard (Norway), the remote scientific infrastructure that houses the largest security collection of global agricultural biodiversity, which safeguards the world's food base. For the first time, this installation will incorporate varieties from Spain, a country with a great wealth of biodiversity as it is a bridge between Europe, Latin America and Africa. The Svalbard Seed Bank, a kind of plant Noah's Ark, is a global scientific infrastructure located on an island in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Store more than a million seed samples of different crops from almost every country in the world; the largest collection of agricultural biodiversity. “This material, also known as plant genetic resources, forms the basis of almost all of our food, explains Luis Guasch, ...