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The Nordic genebank and knowledge center for genetic resources.
We safeguard the Nordic genetic resources and facilitate the sustainable use for agriculture, horticulture and forestry, for current and future generations.
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
NordGen is responsible for the contact with genebanks worldwide interested in depositing duplicates of their seed collections to Svalbard Global Seed Vault. We also handle all the seeds that are sent here for safekeeping.
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GENBIS
Are you a researcher, plant breeder or do you need seeds from the Nordic seed collection in your profession in another way? Then you're welcome to place your order in the database for the Nordic and Baltic genebanks, GENBIS.
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Read our publications!
Reports, manuals, conservation plans and scientific articles. Here you will find all publications published by NordGen, or texts that are authored or co-authored by our staff.
News
Lessons learnt from the Nordic project on crop wild relatives published
Recommendations for conservation and findings from the project is now available in different publications.
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| Plants, Forest, Farm animals, PPP, Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Read more about last year's achievements in NordGen Annual Review 2024
Read the article| PPP, Plants
Cooperation between private and public actors – the development of important Nordic crops continues
Read the article| Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Plants
Dedicated genebank staff saves Sudan seeds amid civil war – deposit seeds in Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Our projects
NordGen participate in several different projects focusing on genetic resources in the Nordic region. Our project partners can be found throughout the Nordics and Baltics but also in the rest of the world.
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