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Wild About Bananas Hunting for Drought Tolerance in Papua New Guinea Bananas were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, sometime between 5,000 and 8,000 BCE. They have since spread widely around…

Wild Plants from Four Continents Deliver Climate Change Lifeline for Crops Nearly 5,000 seed samples of crop wild relatives saved in challenging, six-year effort to secure the future of food. Bonn,…

The Last Crop Before the Desert “I’ve never seen barley looking this great before!” El Kbir Safraoui couldn’t hold back his excitement about the crop growing in his fields. And he had seen a lot of…

Potatoes for a Changing Climate Climate change is reducing potato yields in some important production areas due to more drought, heat, and diseases like late blight and bacterial wilt. Our partners…

Iraq and Uruguay Deposit Crop Seeds at Arctic Doomsday Vault At the last opening of the year, tightly packed seed packets from Iraq and Uruguay join more than 45,000 seed samples of crops from…

Crop Trust '21 Fellowship Awarded Senior English major Shaliz Barzani has been awarded The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler. The fellowship is made possible…

Growing our Community of Crop Diversity Supporters “Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” Almost 70 years after American educator and writer Anne Roe made this…

Webinar: Conserving Crop Diversity Forever Register online After registering, you will receive a separate email with the link to join the webinar. Conserving Crop Diversity Forever Date:…

They’re Back: GROW Webinars for the Genebank Community Genebank Resources on the Web (GROW) webinars are relaunching through a partnership between the Crop Trust and CGIAR to continue…

GB-9 Side Event: Safeguarding Crop Diversity in an Unpredictable World We live in an increasingly uncertain world. Every day presents genebanks with fresh challenges. These challenges need new,…