Millennium Seed Bank to rescue global wild food crop relatives, as their genes may be valuable to help us ride climate change. Preserving diversity is important, there are 200,000 varieties of wheat alone, the wild relatives of our vegetables could prove crucial.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 273567.stm
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