Technology report: the world's largest seed bank is Circumpolar Spitsbergen of permanent construction on the tundra. Tens of thousands of different crop varieties of seed will be stored there, including wheat, maize, beans, etc., even if the outbreak, seed banks will also be harmed. The fate of many crops may in the future in its hands.
Came into the world's seed banks Karim · Fowler squeaking doors open gezhigezhi, enter the underground warehouse, at this moment, a cold wind oncoming. Warehouse smell like a stone. The United States agriculture expert whispered: "door hidden but a great treasure. "He was dressed in blue miner. Fowler was the head of the miner's style, said: "part of human heritage is preserved in the tunnel. I mean, can we bring food and wealth, with tens of thousands of years of history and heritage. "At first, he enters the channel, the surrounding darkness. Soon, through his flashlight light, see the rock face the glittering crystals, rocks are covered with thin layers of black coal.
Fowler also traveled 400 meters after two wooden doors, and finally got destinations: one on the container of wood beams. In the United Nations food and Agriculture Organization of the sponsorship of a project, the desolate will gradually become the world's most important food crops in the seed bank. Once completed, this is located in the Arctic Ocean Spitsbergen Island seed bank will be saved from all over the world, tens of thousands of different varieties of crop seed, wheat, sorghum, corn, peas, or feed, the project sponsor who want to save in Spitsbergen permafrost 400 metres underground tunnels seeds will exist for hundreds of years, perhaps you can save mankind's development.
There are also survive a nuclear war
Fowler said: "seed bank design can even withstand nuclear attack. "Experts say it is" the doomsday warehouse ". Fowler has spent years found that the Arctic is building the world's plant gene pool. Save these seeds are the biggest challenges, their temperature never exceeds 3 to 4 degrees c (37 to 39 ° f) above. While the seeds are mounted on aluminium, but the surrounding environment must be kept dry. Fowler said that more than 6% of the relative humidity can result in seed germination, "will be destroyed", our descendants are immeasurable loss.
Because the climate is dry cold, Arctic therefore become ideal seed storage sites. Even artificial cold spring system failures, accidents or warehouse seed pose any threat. In view of the Spitsbergen's climate and relatively easy, which makes it an ideal place of storage. Seed bank is located in a disused mine, there is apart from Spitsbergen airport near the new seeds can be scheduled flights from all over the world to the airport. Air transportation is convenient for this project is particularly important because each seed samples in saved a few decades later, must be grown in the laboratory. Then, from the new crop of new seed will be taken back to Spitsbergen and then saved.
The project will cost millions euros, Germany by including some inherent in industrial countries to provide financial support. Although the world has established many seed bank, but mostly just to save some crop seeds. For example, the Philippines has a rice Gallery, Colombia has a bean have a library of Mexico corn library. The seed bank saved seed varieties are incomplete, and any security are not the same Spitsbergen in the seed bank. Fowler said: "we carefully care library book collection in disrepair, investing billions to protect historic buildings and works of art. But so far almost no one on our agricultural heritage given any attention. "This kind of neglect of the agricultural heritage of the destructive consequences. For example, in the 19th century exists in the United States of 7100-Apple varieties, now has a 6800 varieties to disappear.
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