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THE National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), in collaboration with Global Crop Diversity Trust, have begun move to improve the use and management of germplasm collections through multi-stakeholder...

Emergency Reserve to provide a financial lifeline to genebanks is announced by the Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Secretariat.

Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their families. A new potato variety called CIP-Matilde, developed by the International Potato Center (CIP) with support from the Crop Trust is the latest...

From a bowl of rice to a cup of coffee, experts say the foods we take for granted could become much scarcer unless we can make them resistant to climate change.

For more than 10,000 years humans have been using selective breeding...

Are seeds alive? What are they made of? Here in Vermont it's planting time, and we've been getting a lot of questions about seeds from kids around the world. In this episode we'll explore the importance of preserving seed...

Crop wild relatives are the ancient ancestors of our domesticated crops. Because they have been growing in the wild for millions of years, crop wild relatives have naturally developed characteristics that allow them to survive in...

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.

Field, Lab, Earth Podcast

from the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America

Episode 42 - “Tapping into Wild Carrot Diversity for New Sources of Abiotic Stress Tolerance...

Plus, 5 facts about the humble root vegetable’s extraordinary potential

Sandra Cordon | Global Landscapes Forum

The potential of the potato has only just begun to be realized.

Some 368 million metric tons of potatoes were...