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The Ultimate In Heirloom Wheat Arrives At Seed Vault

Samples of forage seeds in the International Center for Tropical Agriculture gene bank recently sent to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway. International Center for Tropical Agriculture hide caption

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The Ultimate In Heirloom Wheat Arrives At Seed Vault

A few days ago, hundreds of thousands seeds from around the world arrived at an underground storage vault on a remote Arctic island. That vault holds a growing collection of seeds, from all the different kinds of crops around the world that humans grow for food.

The Ultimate In Heirloom Wheat Arrives At Seed Vault

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