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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

America's seed bank: Our food supply's last line of defense

To protect our food supply against disease and drought, seed bank stores billions of seeds and samples for every crop and animal important to agriculture. This video presents an example of genebank: the Fort Collins facility in Colorado, United States. 
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop diversity
PublisherCNN
Publication year2015
RegionsNorth America
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeMultimedia
Resource linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkHSHt0QlA
KeywordsRole of genebanks; Seed management
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