SeedVault - Seed Portal of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (http://www.seedvault.no) provides a safe backup of seeds on food crops conserved by seedbanks worldwide. This picture is from the day after the opening. Photo by Dag Terje Filip Endresen

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This page allows you to do basic searches regarding the material to be stored in the Seed Vault.

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Seed samples [781 148] [Download]
Taxon names [8 656] [Download]
Species [4 402] [Download]
Genus [839] [Download]
Country of origin [231] [Download] [Map]
Continent of origin [8] [Download] [Map]
Depositor institutes [53] [Download]
Depositor and genus [1 698] [Download]
Depositor, date and crop [3 181] [Download]
Seed deposit events [130] [Download]

SGSV metadata by country. The country names are harmonized according to the ISO 3166 standard codes and names.

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Total 231 hits or records, record 1 to 25 displayed

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Country name	Country code	Number of accessions	Number of seeds	Details
Afghanistan	AFG	5,719	2,977,304	[Details]
Albania	ALB	1,102	370,148	[Details]
Albania	SOM	9	2,250	[Details]
Algeria	DZA	3,235	1,646,970	[Details]
American Samoa	ASM	10	2,900	[Details]
Andorra	AND	1		[Details]
Angola	AGO	133	64,021	[Details]
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	57	42,120	[Details]
Argentina	ARG	4,182	2,107,194	[Details]
Armenia	ARM	1,031	544,311	[Details]
Australia	AUS	3,123	1,367,991	[Details]
Austria	AUT	1,390	541,747	[Details]
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,813	1,320,833	[Details]
Bahamas	BHS	8	2,364	[Details]
Bahrain	BHR	3	2,159	[Details]
Bangladesh	BGD	7,922	3,772,122	[Details]
Barbados	BRB	41	16,059	[Details]
Belarus	BLR	155	78,544	[Details]
Belgium	BEL	469	194,751	[Details]
Belize	BLZ	221	137,567	[Details]
Benin	BEN	790	472,395	[Details]
Bhutan	BTN	465	265,122	[Details]
Bolivia	BOL	2,639	813,186	[Details]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	146	63,193	[Details]
Botswana	BWA	911	750,448	[Details]

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