Northeast Ohio’s Holden Forests and Gardens is the proud owner of a new bank, but this bank doesn’t want your money. Holden’s bank deals in seeds for trees, shrubs, and other native plants. The goal ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a frosty day in early January, as Berlin’s trees and shrubs lie in deep dormancy, it’s hard to imagine it being much colder.

Questions: Could the seed bank increase biodiversity during restoration of abandoned, species-poor, formerly cultivated vegetation? Is it possible to identify how climate, soil and former and present ...

Charles Gourd's garden is so big that before he installed irrigation, it could take three hours to water everything by hand. He grows beans and cucumbers that wind up archways you can walk underneath ...

This genetic mothership is the central node in a nationwide network of institutions that are safeguarding the country's plant diversity.

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 ...

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 ...