The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a new shipment of seeds for long-term storage. The shipment to the vault in Longyearbyen, Norway contained 20,000 seed samples from Japan, Brazil, Peru, Mexico and the USA. For the first time, Okayama University in Japan has deposited a collection of 575 barley variants in the seed vault. Brazil has deposited 514 variants of beans, … [Read more...]