Article One Partners (AOP), a leading crowdsourcing patent research firm, just published a unique call to action on its blog. In an article titled Improve Commercial Agriculture with Seed Sampling, ...

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

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For its birthday, Svalbard will receive seeds from war-torn Syria and celebrate years of success preserving our inheritance from Neolithic times. The world's agricultural hard drive, the Svalbard ...

First it was the seed catalogs that appeared on the heels of Christmas. Now the seed packets are showing up in my mailbox. Spring must not be far away. Being a garden writer, I often get packs of new ...

For the grass seed industry, spotting weed seeds and other unwanted interlopers among thousands of grass seeds is as tedious as it is necessary. Samples of grass seed are repeatedly analyzed by ...

A large deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has taken the number of seed samples stored at the facility to more than a million. The so-called "doomsday vault"—located on a remote Norwegian ...

HELSINKI — Nearly 10 years after a “doomsday” seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world’s largest ...

KNOXVILLE -- Restoring diverse vegetation along the Atlantic seaboard after devastating hurricanes or replanting forests after destructive wildfires rests mightily upon one tiny but important ...

Coimbatore's Seed Testing Laboratory emphasizes international accreditation for seed exporters to facilitate global quality seed movement.

Exotic pests, shrinking ranges and a changing climate threaten some of the world's most rare and ecologically important plants, and so conservationists establish seed collections to save the seeds in ...

Staff members transport seed samples into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, on June 3, 2025. Fourteen gene banks from around the world are depositing more than 11,200 ...