Conservation milestone:
WorldVeg secures over 90% of its global vegetable collections in the Arctic
WorldVeg has deposited its latest shipment of vegetable seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, bringing the share of its international genebank safeguarded in the Arctic to over 90% — a key conservation milestone. The consignment of seven seed boxes contained over 750,000 individual seeds representing 1,650 individual cultivated and wild accessions of chili peppers, […]