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The ancestor of your stir-fry might be growing closer than you think. Wild field mustard, or Brassica rapa, is an unassuming plant that reaches a couple of feet tall and produces clusters of small, yellow flowers perched atop...

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The 2022 Artists For Plants international call is focused on artworks dedicated to seeds.

Seeds maintained in genebanks worldwide are the foundation of our future food and nutrition security.

After three years as Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust, Sir Peter Crane is retiring and Catherine Bertini, a World Food Prize Laureate, will assume leadership. In his final letter in the Crop Trust annual report,...

Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits.

Two genebanks joined the growing number of depositors to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week and varieties of rice bean, lablab and yard-long bean from an Indigenous community were safely backed up for the first time.

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19,391 seed samples from 11 genebanks will be added Largest deposit will be made by the World Vegetable Center, including seeds from Indigenous communities Spain and Lithuania depositing seeds for first time More than 1.1...

Endurance athlete Michael Haddad successfully completed his journey to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on Tuesday, delivering a "package of hope" containing seeds and a book by Pope Francis to the world's largest backup facility...