I can't find anything online about the results of the regional Breadfruit Biocultural Conservation Knowledge Exchange ...

There's a nice article in Rising Kashmir highlighting that region's cold-tolerant maize landraces as a unique source of ...

Rapid adaptive increase of amylase gene copy number in Indigenous Andeans. Indigenous Andean populations evolved exceptionally high copy numbers of the AMY1 salivary amylase gene, likely linked to ...

Remember that “A comprehensive analysis of the operations of the Multilateral System – Insights and key figures 2025” that we trailed a few months back? The official launch is on 22 May and you can ...

FAO has a 6-page leaflet out on “Seed systems – Twenty things you need to know.” It’s well-written and comprehensive. These are the 20 things, in case you were wondering: Crop variety loss also ...

Quick follow-up to my post a few days ago on the recent study of the origin of the collard greens grown in the Moroccan oases of the Draa and Ziz valleys. Alas, that might in practice turn out to be ...

Two articles about the contrasting fortunes of Andean crops came out last week. They describe different sides of the same broad story: Indigenous agricultural systems are highly biodiverse and ...

To the Genebank Academy and Landscape Academy we should now add the Center for Plant Conservation’s Rare Plant Academy. I wonder if we can think of a collective noun for this proliferation? My initial ...

FAO has a 6-page leaflet out on “Seed systems – Twenty things you need to know.” It’s well-written and comprehensive. These are the 20 things, in case you were wondering: Crop variety loss also ...

Quick follow-up to my post a few days ago on the recent study of the origin of the collard greens grown in the Moroccan oases of the Draa and Ziz valleys. Alas, that might in practice turn out to be ...