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  • CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center outside Mexico City, Mexico has a huge concrete refrigerated gene bank with thousands of corn seed samples. Here, Jaime Diaz collects jars of seed. This is the largest such Germplasm bank in the world..Near Mexico City. .
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  • In the wine cellar at UC Davis, California. The cellar contains 200,000 samples. Viticulture/Oenology. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Guam; Earl Campbell's brown tree snake research in a jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released. . There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • At agricultural research station near Oaxaca, Mexico (INIFAP: National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture, and Animal Husbandry), the annual "milpa" survey includes cataloging and photographing hundreds of samples of corn, beans, and squash seeds (grown together and known as a "milpa") in this part of Mexico.
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