The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault


Photographer Caroline Poiron tracks embryos of plant life from their origin on a farm in Hyderabad, India to the
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ICRISTAT will contribute 20,000 samples of five varieties of plants grown in India.

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