Massachusetts-based Native Plant Trust has quietly amassed a enormous "insurance policy" against human-caused extinction.

Among genebanks, there is something called the black box system, where you can send seed duplicates to another genebank for ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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

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.

In the seven years since the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened, hundreds of thousands of seed samples have gone into its icy tombs. And not one has come out—until now. This week the International ...

Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct., 2009), pp. 415-428 (14 pages) Questions: How does disturbance and successional age influence richness, size and composition of the soil seed bank?

Visits to the seed bank at the National Tropical Botanical Garden begin with removing your shoes. The seed bank, on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, is housed alongside NTBG’s collection of 80,000 dried ...

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