Seed gene bank helps farmers adapt to climate change Global food supply chains under growing pressure Fighting biodiversity loss key to food security CALI, Colombia, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Among genebanks, there is something called the black box system, where you can send seed duplicates to another genebank for ...

Genetic alterations during ageing of rice seeds were analyzed using SSR markers. In the first experiment, seeds of 10 accessions of rice were subjected to artificial ageing in chambers conditioned to ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel composition, they can tailor corn for lucrative biotech applications, industrial ...

Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ ...

Massachusetts-based Native Plant Trust has quietly amassed a enormous "insurance policy" against human-caused extinction.

Seed Supreme has reached the top of the list of best cannabis seed banks thanks to its reputation for offering a wide range of high-quality cannabis seeds, including autoflowering and feminized ...

These seed banks focus on conserving local crop diversity such as beans, groundnuts, sorghum and millet among others to ...

CALI, Colombia, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C olombian agronomist Javier Gereda gestures proudly towards the sturdy bean plant and bright green seedlings he has spent the past seven years ...