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In the News . . .

• Planting 'seeds of hope' -- CNN Heroes (15 July 2011)
  
  
• Evolution and Domestication of Seed Structure Shown to Use Same Genetic Mutation -- ScienceDaily (07 July 2011)
  
  
• Svalbard seed vault to take Peruvian potato samples-- BBCNews (17 February 2011)
  
  
• Peruvian Potato Farmers Launch Ambitious Plan to Send 1,500 Varieties to Arctic Seed Vault -- EurekAlert (15 February 2011)

• 'Doomsday' vault opens its doors -- BBCNews (26 February 2008)
  
  
• Fowler, Cary -- Wikipedia
  
  
  • "Saving the World's Genetic Plant Heritage" -- Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
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  • Talks Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food -- TED (July 2009, Oxford, England)
    
    
• Global Crop Diversity Trust -- Wikipedia
  
  
• List of Common Botanical Seed Names -- AsureQuality
  
  
• The Millennium Seed Bank Project -- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  
  
• The Seed Biology Place -- Gerhard Leubner, University of Freiburg, Germany
  
  
• The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
  
  
• More seeds for 'doomsday vault'-- BBCNews (26 February 2009)
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul (Ed.). Forward by Deborah Madison. Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
  
  
• Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
  (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  
  
  • Cary Fowler
    Second Lecture: "Saving the World's Genetic Plant Heritage"
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• 'Red hot' chillies arrive at frozen seed vault-- BBCNews (12 July 2010)
  
  
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- The Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Oslo, Norway
  
  
• The Seed Biology Place -- Gerhard Leubner
  
  
• The Seed Site
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2008 #20: The “Doomsday Vault” Stores Seeds for a Global Agriculture Reboot -- Discover (19 December 2008)
  
  
• What's going into Norway's 'doomsday vault'? -- Julia Layton, howstuffworks (15 February 2007)
  
  
• Wild Food Crop Relatives to Be 'Rescued'-- BBC News (10 December 2010)

VIDEO

• Diverseeds Video: Svalbard and Seedvault
• Diverseeds documentary film on the global importance of seed diversity, incl. Svalbard Global Seed Vault
• Talks Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food -- TED (July 2009, Oxford, England)
• Cary Fowler, "Saving the World's Genetic Plant Heritage" -- Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010) view video on-line
  

The “Doomsday Vault” Stores Seeds for a Global Agriculture Reboot -- Discover (19 December 2008)