Technicians at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center sort samples of wild maize seeds in Texcoco near Mexico City. The CIMMYT will send a shipment of thousands of unique seed samples to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault located in the permafrost of a remote Arctic archipelago.

First published in the July 20, 2011, 1:32 p.m. edition

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