Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, ...

Studies suggest that plant species are going extinct at approximately 500 times the natural or background rate of extinction.

“It's one that's close to my heart,” Welch said. That because it’s one of the first trees he planted, from a seed, at Parc ...

Researchers at MIT are developing innovative agricultural technologies such as stress-signaling plants, microbial fertilizers, and protective seed coatings to adapt farming to climate change and ...

Plant breeders, aiming to develop resilient and high-quality crops, often cross plants from different species to transfer desirable traits. However, they frequently encounter a major obstacle: hybrid ...

Here are some secretive and highly restricted locations worldwide that are completely off-limits or extremely difficult for the public to access.

In 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was inaugurated on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen. It is intended to be a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity. More than 100 metres below ...

An Arctic seed vault on Norway’s Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020 ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions.

Two scientists who helped create an international seed vault received the World Food Prize last week in Des Moines, spotlighting the importance of seed banks, including one in northeast Iowa. The Seed ...