University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel ...

Using a new AI method, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have rediscovered 51 old pea varieties that are no ...

Seed gene bank helps farmers adapt to climate change Global food supply chains under growing pressure Fighting biodiversity loss key to food security CALI, Colombia, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

As wildfires rage, oceans warm, and geopolitical divisions are becoming more pronounced, a quieter revolution unfolds underground and in climate-controlled vaults around the world. It’s a revolution ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Ivan Duque on Tuesday inaugurated the world's largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages for feeding livestock, which will provide ...

At a jointly organized side event on the margins of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), the IAEA and OPEC Fund discussed the establishment of a seed gene bank in the Arab Region as ...

When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's ...

CALI, Colombia, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C olombian agronomist Javier Gereda gestures proudly towards the sturdy bean plant and bright green seedlings he has spent the past seven years ...