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Grist Online reports on report on Crop Wild Relatives: "Wild thing, I think I need you: How weeds could save dinner"

Who needs weeds? In a climate-changed world, we all do.

Wild relatives of potatoes, peas, eggplants, and...

Every year farmers grow around $150 billion worth of wheat, providing 23% of the calories we live on. But some years it all goes wrong.

2010 was a bad year for wheat: a heat wave in Russia, cold weather in Canada, drought in China...

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...