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Thoughts on the Inaugural International Day of Plant Health I suspect that the well-being of plants is not much on people’s minds these days. Did you know that 2020 was the International Year of…

This is how the Ukrainian Seeds Were Saved Earlier this year, a secret operation involving scientists and technicians successfully moved a collection of 51,004 Ukrainian seed varieties from Kharkiv…

This Crazy World Luigi Guarino What you – and they – are looking at is a small fraction of the world’s largest collection of bean diversity. You can admire it, like these guys are doing, at the…

Luigi Guarino

They’re Back: GROW Webinars for the Genebank Community Genebank Resources on the Web (GROW) webinars are relaunching through a partnership between the Crop Trust and CGIAR to continue…

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.

Fighting Late Blight with Farmer-Approved, Disease-Resistant Spuds

The World's "Coolest" Insurance Policy Turns 10 Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Ten years ago, a group of plant scientists, politicians, engineers, media and more gathered on a snow-covered mountain on…

The World Podcast: Ukraine Seed Bank Under Threat by Russian Invasion The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and…

The Wonderful World of Sunflowers Think about sunflowers, and there is a good chance that Vincent van Gogh's masterful artworks will leap to mind. His series of sunflower paintings, created in the…