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How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future.
Scientists working in research groves, like one in Nova Scotia, are developing your favorite new apple variety.
Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called Kandil...
29 Sep 2022
United States Contributes to Fund To Protect Collections of Crop Diversity Under Imminent Threat
NEW DELHI, India (28 September 2022) – The Government of the United States of America has announced it is making a contribution to the Emergency Reserve, a funding mechanism established jointly by the Crop Trust and the Internatio...
28 Sep 2022
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 thought-provoking discussions within the genebank community.
28 Sep 2022
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, urgent, imaginative responses. The Crop Trust and the International Plant Treaty Secretariat have responded...
19 Sep 2022
19 Sep 2022 - 19 Sep 2022
What is a Genebank?
Have you ever wondered what a genebank does? The short answer is that genebanks store genes. Not literally, although there are some specialized genebanks that do manage genes – the actual bits of DNA that give living things their...
13 Sep 2022
Sarada Krishnan, the Crop Trust’s new Director of Programs, talks about BOLD
Sarada Krishnan joined the Crop Trust as Director of Programs at the beginning of July 2022. Prior to joining the Crop Trust, Sarada was Director of Horticulture at the Denver Botanic Gardens in the USA.
In August 2022, she...
8 Sep 2022
Restoring Crop Biodiversity through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with Stefan Schmitz
Crop Trust Executive Director Stefan Schmitz joined Caitlin Welsh, Director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for an episode of Reset the Table to consider the role of crop...
4 Sep 2022