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.

Search the Seed Portal by:

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]

This list holds summary metadata on seed samples deposited at the SGSV for each continent. The continent name is derived from the country of collecting or source as reported by the seed depositor.

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Total 8 hits or records, record 1 to 8 displayed

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Continent name	Number of accessions	Number of seeds	Details
Africa	119,938	145,757,641	[Details]
Antartica	2	400	[Details]
Asia	296,437	212,814,843	[Details]
Europe	88,391	38,320,538	[Details]
North America	174,046	60,947,466	[Details]
Oceania	3,616	1,607,562	[Details]
South America	50,271	21,769,037	[Details]
unknown	48,447	32,583,538	[Details]

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