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Nature 441, 912-913 (22 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441912b; Published online 21 June 2006
Doomsday food store takes pole position
Jacqueline Ruttimann
There's something fitting about the decision to site a bastion against the end of the world in a place that looks as if it has already experienced the apocalypse. On 19 June, a construction crew started work on a doomsday seed bank from which the genetic riches of Earth's food crops could, if necessary, be reconstituted.
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