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

Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of ...

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Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, two men who led the effort to create the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, will receive the 2024 World Food Prize. The vault opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed ...

Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food supply. Seed vaults like this are often framed as props in an apocalypse ...

The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s winner of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Two-thirds of the ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Cary Fowler and ...