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

Information sharing

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 [526 129]    [Download]
• Taxon names [6 433]    [Download]
• Species [3 710]    [Download]
• Genus [714]    [Download]
• Country of origin [226]    [Download]    [Map]
• Continent of origin [8]    [Download]    [Map]
• Depositor institutes [29]    [Download]
• Depositor and genus [1 312]    [Download]
• Depositor, date and crop [1 824]    [Download]
• Seed deposit events [54]    [Download]

Sgsv by depositor details
Depositor name	:	International Rice Research Institute
Institute acronym	:	IRRI
Institute code	:	PHL001
Accessions	:	70,180
Seeds	:	35,577,567
Seed boxes	:	238
Taxa	:	50
Species	:	48
Genus	:	6
Countries	:	122
Continents	:	6