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Escaping Lethal Yellowing
Luigi Guarino|Director of Science and Programs
Readers of a certain age may remember a catchy but ever-so-slightly annoying tune from the late 70s called “Escape,” which also went by the even more annoying subtitle of “The Piña...
21 Sep 2016
21 Sep 2016
USDA Honors Crop Diversity with 2nd Largest Seed Deposit
19 September 2016 - the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s doors were opened as 53 new boxes of seeds arrived from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The shipment, which included nearly 20,000 accessions of different...
19 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016
New Video: On Collecting and Capacity Building
The newest Crop Wild Relatives video is live, highlighting the importance of collecting and capacity building!
Crop wild relatives, the wild cousins of our domesticated crops, are crucial to future food security. Before they can...
14 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016
The Cows Come Home
Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs
Cows get a lot of bad press these days. They are blamed for climate change and deforestation and even unhealthy diets, as if it’s their fault that people like to scoff down...
13 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016
Newsletter: Forages for the Future, Issue 2
Forages for the Future, Issue 2 now available! After publishing the first issue, there was an overwhelmingly, positive response. The subscription for the newsletter has now doubled and Bruce Pengelly and Brigitte Maass, two...
13 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016
Quality Matters
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
The job of the Crop Trust is to safeguard one of the world’s most important natural resources – namely plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. It is a big and many faceted responsibility....
7 Sep 2016
7 Sep 2016