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Packing wheat seed sample


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Packing a wheat seed sample for CIMMYT’s germplasm bank. Wheat samples go into a number of sealed aluminum envelopes. One particular is stored in an active collection for meeting seed requests, although the rest are positioned in lengthy-term storage at CIMMYT and in 3 companion banks, including the &quotDoomsday&quot Worldwide Seed Vault at Svalbard, Norway.

Barcoding has been utilised because 2000 in the maize collection, and considering that 2008 in the wheat collection, allowing the genetic resource accessions held by CIMMYT to be managed a lot more proficiently.

Photo credit: CIMMYT.

For much more information, this photo was component of a slideshow accompanying the story &quotThe Journey of a Seed&quot in CIMMYT’s August 2008 e-news, accessible on the web right here:
www.cimmyt.org/english/wps/news/2008/aug/journeyseed.htm