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A box containing 25 accessions of pigeon pea marks first-ever seed deposit from India to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

In April 2014, India made its first seed deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with one box of 25...

Valencia, Spain (15-16 May 2014) – Why eggplants? Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable crop, especially in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. According to FAO statistics, eggplant ranks 6th, after...

NEW AUSTRALIAN SEED DEPOSIT

Indigenous crop wild relatives, brassica, oats among seeds that find safe haven in Svalbard Global Seed Vault

It is cold and white outside. The wind blows snowflakes sideways. But the members of the...

The Guardian reports on the addition of Brazilian beans and Japanese Barley to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Some 20,000 plant species from more than 100 countries and institutions will be added to the global seed bank in...

The potato is the world's number three food, feeding more than a billion people. But potato late blight may be the world's number one plant disease threat.

The fungus-like organism known as late blight is probably the worst...

The New Indian Express reports on the importance of conserving seeds in genebanks.

Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who hails from Norway has called for the conservation of seeds in gene banks so...

The Hindu reports on Marie Haga's lecture at the invitation of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.

Ms. Haga, a former politician from Norway, was in Chennai on Friday to deliver the millennium lecture on ‘Feeding a growing...

Sorghum comes in a strong fifth among the world's important cereal crops – and nothing else matches its diversity of forms and uses.

A stalwart of hot and dry areas, sorghum demands few inputs and provides more than just grain in...

By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs

We use 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile. 89.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot. You can probably think of examples. Numbers such as these have been repeated so...