El País: Wild Wheat - The Key to Food Security in a Warming World
Farmers have saved a billion liters of fungicide through disease-resistant wheat varieties, which owe their resilience to genes from wild relatives. However, climate change and evolving pathogens require further research into...
30 Sep 2024
New Drought-tolerant Varieties of Durum Wheat and Barley for Morocco
An international collaboration of world-leading scientists led by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), and supported by the Crop Trust, has delivered six new durum wheat and barley...
17 Mar 2023
Science Against Climate Change: Unlocking Wild Genes in Wheat
A newly bred “black-spiked” wheat with a hardiness likened to the strength of mountains is among new developments in agri-food science, which are humanity’s strong arm to offset the noticeably degrading effects of climate change that are crippling essential global food networks.
5 Dec 2022
Jabal: The New Wheat Scientists Say Can Withstand Extreme Heat and Drought
The variety is a cross between commercial and wild wheats – bred in a bid to develop crops that are more resilient to the climate crisis.
A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat has been created as part of an international...
4 Dec 2022
Using Wild Relatives to Toughen up Staple Crops
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...
18 Apr 2021
Washington Post: Why the World is Storing So Many Seeds in a ‘Doomsday’ Vault
Recent Washington Post article, titled "Why the world is storing so many seeds in a ‘doomsday’ vault" sheds some light on why conserving seeds is so critically important not only in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault but in genebanks...
28 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016
Wired: Genebank Saved From Syrian Civil War
Lizzie Wade reports in Wired Magazine: when civil war erupted in Syria, Ahmed Amri, the genebank manager at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), immediately thought about seeds.
Specifically,...
17 Apr 2015
17 Apr 2015
BBC: Forest Tree Seeds Arrive at Svalbard's 'Doomsday Vault'
BBC's Mark Kinver reports on the recent deposit of forest tree seeds and more to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery...
5 Mar 2015
5 Mar 2015
Wired: Svalbard's Icy Vault Welcomes First Tree Seeds
Wired.co.uk reports on the deposit of tree seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in February 2015.
The Global Seed Vault on the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean has added the first forest tree samples to its collection...
2 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015