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Norway doomsday seed container strikes 1/2 million mark By IAN MacDOUGALL, Connected Press Author Ian Macdougall, Connected Press Author – Wed Mar 10, 7:01 pm ET OSLO, Norway – 2 yrs after getting its first remains, a "doomsday" seed container on an Arctic area has accumulated half of a million seed examples, which makes it the world's most varied archive of plant seeds, the vault's providers introduced Thursday. Cary Fowler — who heads the confidence that runs the seed selection, which can be 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the North Pole, said the service today homes at least one-third of the world's plant seeds. "In my whole life, I actually do not believe we'll review 1.5 million. When we review a Fowler informed The Associated Press I'd be somewhat amazed. "At that time, we'd have all of the variety on the planet... and the absolute most safe samples." Situated in Norway's distant Svalbard chain, the Svalbard Worldwide Seed Vault is just a guard against conflicts or natural disasters cleaning out food plants around the world. It had been opened in 2008 as a master copy to the world's different 1,400 seed banks, just in case their remains are lost. War destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and still another bank in the Philippines was bombarded in the aftermath of a storm in 2006. The Svalbard bank was created to resist worldwide heating, earthquakes and also nuclear attacks. Regardless of the rapid improvement, Fowler said the financial institution still has substantial openings in its selection. "There really are a few distinctive selections that people don't have up there however — Ethiopia and some of the Indian supplies and some of the Chinese materials," he explained. The newest improvements incorporate a mold-resistant vegetable from Colombia and an accumulation of virtually every agricultural soybean variety created in the U.S. Within the last century. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/...doomsday_vault ------------ I was ignorant this existed.