Westengen, Coordinator of Operation and Management of the SGSV from the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, Norway. With the recent shipment of 3702 accessions, 91 of ICRISATs genebank collection has been safety duplicated at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Michael Koch, Director of Finance were present from the GCDT along with Dr. Bansal on behalf of NBPGR signed the SDA and deposited the material with a message from the DG ICAR that was pasted on the Box carrying the material, which read - 'for the well-being of one and all on the planet earth'.ĭuring the above seed deposit ceremony, Dr. Ayyappan, Secretary DARE and Director General ICAR accorded approval for this first official deposit from India. ICAR from India becomes the 59th such institution to add for the first time pigeon pea seeds in the SGSV.Įarlier, Dr. So far, 58 institutions across the world have deposited their precious germplasm raising the total number of accessions conserved in the SGSV to over 0.8 million. For the February 26 opening of the Seed Vault, workers will load shipments from 21 seed banks, which have se nt 268,000 samples that contain about 100 million seeds. Svalbard Seed Vault Grant Because seeds don’t last forever, not even in genebanks, the Crop Trust and partners will help genebanks and other seed collection holders in their efforts to regenerate and back up crop diversity collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The purpose of the SGSV is to ensure future food security by conserving rare seed material or 'safety duplicates' of food and forage crops already conserved in the national gene banks across the world. in a steady flow of samples being sent to Svalbard in coming y ears as the genebanks produce fresh new seed. The SGSV, commissioned in February 2008, is located in the far north, in the permafrost region, in the remote arctic island of Svalbard (Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, 780 North), only about 1300 miles from the North Pole. This was the first such deposit by India as 'safety duplicates' in the global gene bank, which is jointly maintained and managed by the Norway's department of agriculture and the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). Mandal, Director General (Life Sciences), DRDO and Dr. The seed vault is owned by the Norwegian government and administered. Ashish Bahuguna, Secretary (A&C), which also included Dr. Operation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a collaboration between several players. The material was deposited on Apby the Indian delegation led by Sh. of India) has taken a step forward in securing its crop genetic diversity by depositing 25 accessions of pigeon pea in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV). The remoteness of the vault also helps protect it from other manmade problems. First deposit of seeds from India in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for safeguarding nation's future food and nutritional security The Global Seed Vault ensures those seed samples are always available.

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