International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Biodiversity and Integrated Gene Management - Genetic Resources Section

Saftey duplication is crucial activity to guarnty the security of the collection

Over the past 40 years ICARDA-GRS responded to thousands of seeds requests, received from researchers and breeders from around the world, and shipped approximately 881,000 seeds samples for users.

ICARDA's boxes at Svalbard global genebank �to the left side�, a second level duplicate of ICARDA�s in-trust collection. Photo credit: Mari Tefre.

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