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2010年3月13日星期六

'末日'種子庫貯存五十萬種作物


Doomsday Vault Protects World's Seeds on "60 Minutes"
末日保管庫保護世界的種子 在“60分鐘”
西元2008年03月29日


'世界末日'種子保管庫貯存五十萬種作物
'Doomsday' Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops

By Jeanna Bryner, Live
Science Managing Editor
posted: 10 March 2010 07:01 pm ET

A mold-resistant bean, a German pink tomato and a wild strawberry plucked from the flanks of a Russian volcano are just some of the crops whose seeds are being tucked away this week in a giant vault dug out of a mountainside of the Norwegian island Svalbard.
一粒抗模豆,一粉紅色的德國蕃茄和一野生草莓摘取自俄羅斯火山的翼,都只是作物的其中一些,它們的種子這星期會被藏入巨大的保管庫中,它從挪威斯瓦爾巴島的山腰被挖掘出。
With these new deposits, the so-called Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault will reach its half-million mark of seed varieties. The giant icebox of sorts, which was officially opened on Feb. 26, 2008, is meant to protect the world's crop diversity from natural or manmade disasters.
有了這些新的存貨,那所謂的斯瓦爾巴德“世界末日”全球種子庫,將達到它的 半百萬 記號的種子品種。那有各種各樣的巨大冰箱,正式啟用 於2008年2月26日,是為了從自然或人為災難保護世界上農作物的多樣性。
"Reaching the half million mark brings mixed emotions, because while it shows that the vault at Svalbard is now the gold standard for diversity, it comes at a time when our agriculture systems are really sitting on a knife's edge," said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which partners with the Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center in Sweden in operating the vault.

Fowler added, "If crops and agriculture don't adapt to climate change, neither will humanity."
福勒補充:“如果作物和農業不適應氣候變化,人類也不會。”

巨大冰箱
Giant icebox
The Vault is dug into the Platåberget mountain, which means "plateau mountain," and is located near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard – a group of islands north of mainland Norway. The arctic permafrost offers natural freezing for the seeds, while additional cooling brings the temperatures down to minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 18 degrees Celsius).
保管庫是挖入Platåberget山,意為“高原山”,位置在斯瓦爾巴朗伊爾城的村莊附近 - 挪威以北 羣島。北極永久凍土給種子提供天然的凍結,儘管額外的冷凍帶溫度降到零下負0.4度華氏(零下18攝氏度)。
And if the mountain of snow enshrouding the storage rooms isn't enough protection, what better body guard than one of nature's biggest beasts.
和如果雪山遮蓋那些儲藏室是不夠的保護,什麼是比一個大自然最大的野獸更好的保鑣。
"The region on Svalbard surrounding the Seed Vault is remote, severe, and inhabited by polar bears," according to the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which helps to support the vault's operations.

The preciousness of such seeds is reflected in the inaccessible nature of the vault. "Anyone seeking access to the seeds themselves will have to pass through four locked doors: the heavy steel entrance doors, a second door approximately 115 meters down the tunnel and finally the two keyed air-locked doors," the Trust writes. "Keys are coded to allow access to different levels of the facility. Not all keys unlock all doors."

種子:不只是未雨綢繆
Seeds: not just for a rainy day
Like all seeds coming to the vault, the new ones are duplicates of those from other collections. Material directly acquired by plant breeders to develop disease-resistant and "climate-ready" crops, and to meet the challenge of rapidly growing populations, is maintained by genebanks, not the seed vault.

"Svalbard is a fail-safe backup to be used whenever a depositing seed bank loses part or all of its collection, but we should focus equally on averting the disasters in the first place," Fowler said.

Other seeds shipped to the doomsday vault include: semi-dwarf wheat and rice from the early 1960s; disease-resistant soybeans; and the German pink tomato, a hardy sweet-flavored tomato transported to Iowa in 1883 by a Bavarian immigrant.

"We're seeing in several of the soybean varieties intriguing traits that could allow farmers to confront such problems as drought or extreme heat, shorter or longer growing seasons, or higher levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide]," said Dave Ellis, curator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/doomsday-seed-vault-arctic-100310.html

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