Articles for Seed Banks

The guardians of Peru's potato park
1 year, 3 months ago

The guardians of Peru's potato park

BBC  

The seed guardians of Peru trying to save the potato Andes The farmers in Peru's potato park are breeding climate-resilient potato varieties From potatoes to quinoa, many of our favourite foods are at risk from threats like climate change and disease. Andes There are more than 1,300 varieties of potato to be found growing in the mountains of the Andes …

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Are seed banks the answer to food security in the future?
1 year, 5 months ago

Are seed banks the answer to food security in the future?

Live Mint  

With concerns about climate change and global warming on the rise, seed banks are considered as a last resort to conserving different plants and crops. On Friday, Agence France-Presse reported that a South American seed bank, named The bank in Costa Rica, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, has around 6,200 samples from 125 variants of edible plants like …

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Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday
2 years, 9 months ago

Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday

BBC  

Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) Across the world, strategic seed banks keep safe seeds that could replenish agriculture after a cataclysm. In this first batch alone, the team identified more than 1,600 genes in chickpeas that were new to science In this context, a seed bank's tens-of-thousands of samples, or accessions, …

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The seed bank that's inadvertently storing fungi
3 years, 9 months ago

The seed bank that's inadvertently storing fungi

BBC  

The seed bank that's inadvertently storing fungi Alamy Many of the seeds stored at the Millennium Seed Bank are home to microscopic fungi, which have been hiding undetected for years. In the first study of its kind, to our knowledge, in a major seed bank, we found hundreds of fungi hidden inside seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank, some of …

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How This Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Could Save Us From A Global Food Crisis
4 years, 10 months ago

How This Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Could Save Us From A Global Food Crisis

Huff Post  

The “Doomsday Vault” lies within the Arctic Circle on the island of Spitsbergen, about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault approached the Cherokee Nation after reading an NPR story about the tribe’s program to conserve important seeds and distribute them to Cherokee Nation citizens across the U.S. and overseas. We’re talking about plants …

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