About the Authors

Ola T. Westengen

ola.westengen@nordgen.org

Affiliations Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen), Alnarp, Sweden, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Simon Jeppson

Affiliation Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen), Alnarp, Sweden

Luigi Guarino

Affiliation The Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

OTW and SJ are employees of Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen). LG is an employee of The Global Crop Diversity Trust. Both NordGen and The Global Crop Diversity Trust are nonprofit organizations involved in the administration of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. This does not alter the authors‚ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OW. Performed the experiments: OW SJ. Analyzed the data: OW SJ LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OW SJ. Wrote the paper: OW SJ LG.