‘Doomsday’ vault holds half a million seeds
Posted: March 14, 2010 at 4:21 a.m.
Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced last week.
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Business, Pages 75 on 03/14/2010
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