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Protecting Vanilla, One of Our Favorite Flavors Baking enthusiasts everywhere love to talk about vanilla—what type they like, how they use it, and of course, its delicious flavor and aroma. But the…

GRIN-Global Community Edition: A Collective Step Forward for Genebank Data Managers All genebanks need sound data management to keep track of the inventories of seeds in their cold rooms and fields,…

Seed Collecting, Conservation and Collaboration in West Africa As a young boy growing up in Niger, Hamidou Falalou fell in love with the search for answers and knew he wanted to become a scientist.…

Wild Cousins Boost Eggplant Breeding on Our Warming Planet The world’s farmers urgently need new crop varieties that are resilient to such results of climate change as droughts and outbreaks of new…

From a Childhood on a Farm to an Agricultural Scientist: Paula Bramel This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with…

This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating the importance of crop diversity with a series of cards you can print and give to your loved ones. Scroll to the bottom of this post to download them.

Food For a Curious Mind: Damaris Odeny on a Career in Agricultural Science This is part of a weekly series in honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science featuring interviews with…

An Exciting Start to 2016 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…

A Worthy Bean Daniel Debouck, a Belgian researcher who until his retirement a few months ago ran the CIAT genebank, received the Order of Leopold a couple of weeks back. That’s his country’s highest…

Alfalfa Pre-Breeding: Spotlight on Alan Humphries LM Salazar | Communications Manager You might not be familiar with alfalfa, but this member of the pea family is one of the world’s most important…