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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity Massive rice collection to receive permanent financial backing, saving almost all known varieties of rice crops, forever  (SINGAPORE – 12 October…

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

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.

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…

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

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…

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…

Thousands of Years of Global Agricultural History Preserved for Future Generations International efforts to guarantee the future of world food supplies will see thousands of seeds from almost every…

Threatened Wild Sunflowers   The line of cars was so thick that Hill County farmer Rodney Schronk couldn’t get into his field of sunflowers. Hordes of rubber-neckers stopped along Interstate…