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Safeguarding a global seed heritage from Syria to Svalbard.
Nature plants - 1 Nov 2020
Westengen Ola T, Lusty Charlotte, Yazbek Mariana, Amri Ahmed, Asdal Åsmund
Abstract excerpt
Crop diversity underpins food security and adaptation to climate change. Concerted conservation efforts are needed to maintain and make this diversity available to plant scientists, breeders and farmers. Here we present the story of the rescue and reconstitution of the unique seed collection held in the international genebank of International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Syria....
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