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Recent BBC article, titled "Go Wild to Protect Food Security" says that the answers to future food security may be found in the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops and highlights the urgent need to "go wild" and conserve...

A new study has shown that over 70 percent of the wild relatives of our domesticated food crops are under-represented in genebanks. 

The study, “Global Conservation Priorities for Crop Wild Relatives“, published in Nature Plants,...

Crop diversity is the raw material for the development of new and improved varieties, which provide a range of important benefits to farmers and consumers.

Researchers have been assembling and managing ex situ collections of crop...

Sosthene Ahongeze, 52, always knew the time for planting and harvesting, and planned accordingly.

Having spent many decades as a smallholder farmer, the resident of Gasoro Cell in the rural Kigoma Sector, Nyanza District was...

Marie Haga | Marie's Corner

Let me start out with a big thank you to the German Government. We signed a grant agreement for a EUR 25 million contribution to the Crop Trust Endowment on 15 January in Berlin. The biggest single...

Statement from the Executive Director

Over the last four years Genesys has grown into the Internet’s most comprehensive portal for plant genetic resources, unifying information on more than 2.6 million crop genebank accessions....

Scientists and crop breeders are racing to identify the wild ancestors of domesticated plants before a warming world hastens their demise.

Crop diversity in focus: a global photography campaign was launched today celebrating the beauty and value of crop diversity around the world.

The campaign, #CropsInColor, will highlight the diversity of food crops and the role...