These seed banks focus on conserving local crop diversity such as beans, groundnuts, sorghum and millet among others to ...

Ex situ conservation efforts such as those of zoos, botanical gardens, and seed banks will form a vital complement to in situ conservation actions over the coming decades. It is therefore necessary to ...

MoBot's seed bank houses over 9,600 packets of seeds for conservation purposes — spanning 1,511 species from 20 countries and ...

After 20 years as a journalist, M J Prabu returned to his Tamil Nadu village to revive indigenous paddy varieties through ...

In a paper published Friday in Nature Plants, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, detail for the first time the scale of threatened species that are unable to be conserved in seed banks.

Nate Kingsley, a seed ecologist, tends to growing plants at the Lyon Arboretum greenhouse. Both labs have contributed heavily to plant conservation in Hawaii. The Seed Conservation Laboratory is a ...

Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ ...

Above the main campus at the University of California, Berkeley, nestled in Strawberry Canyon at the Botanical Gardens, you'll find a critically important bank. It doesn't store hordes of cash or ...

Over the past 100 years, an ever-expanding consensus has taken shape—first among scientists and later among policymakers, farmers, and eaters—that we need to preserve biological diversity in the ...

If an apocalypse wiped out the natural landscape as we know it, freezers scattered across Massachusetts — currently set to -20 degrees Celsius — contain hope for rebirth. Stored carefully inside are ...