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Record #185590:
Work starts on Arctic seed vault / Reuters.
Title: | Work starts on Arctic seed vault / Reuters. |
Author (corporate): | Reuters. |
Date: | 2007. |
In: | Polar Times. (2007.), Vol. 3(11) (2007) |
Abstract: | Reports beginning of construction of seed vault on Svalbard, designed to hold samples of 1.5 million distinct varieties of agricultural crops, and intended as "back-up" resource for world's seed banks in event of natural disasters. |
Notes: | Polar Times. Vol. 3(11) :29 (2007). |
Keywords: | 502 -- Environmental issues. 502.753 -- Conservation, plant species. 575 -- Genetics. 58 -- Botany. 581.48 -- Seeds. 624 -- Engineering, civil and structural. F -- Biological sciences. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*32) -- Svalbard. |
SPRI record no.: | 185590 |
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