Despite the gaps in gene banks discovered by the study, the overall finding was just how successful the growing movement toward protecting these varieties in the past 50 years has been. “What we now ...

As rich sources of genetic diversity, the progenitors and kin of today’s food crops hold great promise for improving production in agriculture’s challenging future. A series of rodent experiments ...

Today, crop conservation strategies include stocking seed and gene banks, holding local seed swaps, and establishing catalogs of culinary rarities. Despite their different methods and often divergent ...

YAZBEK: It's one of the biggest gene banks in the world, with a very unique collection. SHERLOCK: Yazbek's team's focus is conserving seeds for wild varieties of crops and plants, ...

A member of NordGen, the gene bank of the Nordic countries, ... of this doomsday vault are effectively backup storage for a global network of more than 1,700 smaller vaults called gene banks.

This photo taken on June 3, 2025 shows the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. Fourteen gene banks from around the world are depositing more than 11,200 seed samples this ...

The Gene Campaign had developed the concept of Zero Energy Community Gene/Seed Banks, where seeds are stored at ambient temperatures so there is no expenditure on electricity for cooling.

The Gene Campaign had developed the concept of Zero Energy Community Gene/Seed Banks, where seeds are stored at ambient temperatures so there is no expenditure on electricity for cooling.