Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Three years after constructing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, now with more than one half million accessions of cultivated plants, we still confront extinction of cultivated plant germplasm.

Sudan's diverse crops and agricultural heritage are at risk of being lost. The ongoing conflict in Sudan is claiming lives and threatening livelihoods and food security.In the chaos of conflict, ...

Genetic improvement involving hybridisation across ploidy levels (diploid, aneuploid or polyploid) is important in wide crossing involving polyploid plant species such as rice wild relatives and ...

last month.Credit...Rozette Halvorson for The New York Times Supported by By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Linda Qiu Reporting from Washington The National Plant Germplasm System, a vast federal ...