03 Sep 2020 --- The Germplasm Resources Unit (GRU) has contributed seed duplicates of its entire 2,922 pea collection to the Svalbard Seed Vault shelves for safe, long-term storage. Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the largest backup facility for the world’s crop diversity. The move comes as climate change and political decisions lead to risks for the genebanks, which are seeing an increasing need for securing their seed collections in more than one place.