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From Syria to Lebanon, Saving the Seeds That Could Save Humanity

From Syria to Lebanon, Saving the Seeds That Could Save Humanity

If a grown sample in a colder region isn’t able to withstand frequent heat waves and gets wiped out, the genetically resilient samples created in ICARDA’s genebank would come to the rescue. So when the accessions made their way to Lebanon in late 2015, it was all hands on deck.