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Priceless Samples from Ukraine's Seed Bank Destroyed in Bomb Attack

Priceless Samples from Ukraine's Seed Bank Destroyed in Bomb Attack Tens of thousands of seed samples that were part of Ukraine's national seed collection have been destroyed by a Russian bomb…

Ensuring Enough Eggplant for Everyone

Ensuring Enough Eggplant for Everyone The Crop Trust facilitated the development of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of eggplant and its wild relatives to help ensure food and nutrition…

International Day for Biological Diversity 2022

International Day for Biological Diversity 2022 May 22 each year marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. This year, the theme is “building a shared future for all life" to highlight…

Accessible Software for Accessible Seeds

Accessible Software for Accessible Seeds As any plant breeder and researcher will tell you, it’s all about the data. It’s the data that allows them to make smart choices about the crops they breed,…

ICRISAT’s Damaris Odeny. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

"Our Seeds Could Start the Next Green Revolution"

Q&A with Athanasios Tsivelikas, manager of the ICARDA Morocco genebank.

New ICARDA Morocco Genebank Set to Open

New ICARDA Morocco Genebank Set to Open On May 18th, 2022, the new International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Morocco genebank is set to officially open in Rabat,…

Genebank Manager Athanasios Tsivelikas in active collection cold room, Rabat, Morocco.

Thoughts on the Inaugural International Day of Plant Health

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…

In vitro production of virus free planting for international distribution at IITA.

International Day of Plant Health

International Day of Plant Health May 12, 2022, marks the inaugural International Day of Plant Health, a day created as part of the legacy of the International Year of Plant Health, which was…

A scientist checking seedlings in the International Potato Center genebank, Peru

Healthy Agriculture Starts with Healthy Seeds

Healthy Agriculture Starts with Healthy Seeds Genebanks and germplasm health units play a key role in ensuring plant health by protecting their seed collections from pests and diseases and by…

Landrace Conservation Offers Hope in Race to Collect Crop Diversity

A new global analysis is a big step in assessing the maintained diversity of landraces within 25 major crops in the genebanks worldwide.

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.