Share a Tiny Space of Your Freezer to Preserve Seed Diversity

Abstract excerpt

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), estimates that 75% of crop diversity was lost since the 1900s. That lack of diversity presents a severe risk to the security of global food systems. Without seed diversity, it is difficult for plants to adapt to pests, diseases, and changing climate conditions. Genebanks, such as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, are valuable initiatives to preserve seed diversity in a si...

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• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Crops, Agricultural
• Farmers
• Genetic Variation
• Phenotype
• Plant Breeding
• Seed Bank
• Seeds

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Literature Corpus work

f2f300f3-f8bf-5465-81ff-e847496c67bb

DOI

10.32388/sanfwe