The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received 20,443 seed samples in 39
boxes from 10 genebanks all around the globe as the year's first deposit.

Two Norwegian ministers participated in this year's first opening of the
Seed Vault. Sandra Borch, Minister of Agriculture and Food, and Anne
Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development were present
when thousands of seed samples were secured in the Seed Vault. The
deposit includes seeds that were not previously represented in the Seed
Vault, including nearly 100 forage species from the Australian Pastures
Genebank and 50 crop species from the Leibniz Institute of Plant
Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany. The IPK deposit
includes samples of wheat collected in the Austrian Alpine region in the
1920sā??one of the oldest collections at the genebank.

The largest deposit of 6,336 seed samples was made by the International
Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) from its
genebank in Morocco, bringing their total holding in the Seed Vault to
more than 100,000 seed samples, close to what it was before the Center
withdrew seeds from the Seed Vault back in 2015, 2017, and 2019 to
reestablish its genebank collection. The Seed Vault now has 1,145,862
seed samples of nearly 6,000 plant species from 89 genebanks around the
world. This is the world's largest and most diverse collection of crop
diversity.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault Opens for First Deposit of 2022 - Crop Trust
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