Think Out Loud Plant gene bank in Corvallis could help ensure future food stability By Gemma DiCarlo (OPB) Aug. 8, 2023 1:47 p.m. Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 8:39 p.m.

Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but at the University of Missouri, plant biochemist Jay Thelen is using it as a ...

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

For the first time, a plant specimen has been cryopreserved and placed into the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Frozen Zoo, a step scientists believe could help the endangered scrub oak species ...

Inside the Pacific's gene bank, thousands of crop varieties are propagated, to prepare for the spread of new agricultural diseases and the impact of a changing climate. Some seedlings are the last ...

Hyderabad: By redeveloping the botanical garden on the campus, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) aims to create a gene bank of local varieties of wild fruits and ...

The gene bank can hold as many as 120,000 varieties of plants. Many of the seeds come from crops as old as agriculture itself.

Malta is set to get its very first plant gene bank next year, Agriculture Minister Anton Refalo announced on Friday. The project, which is being carried out by the Plant Protection Directorate, is ...

SMOLEVICHI DISTRICT, 16 August (BelTA) – Belarus' genetic resource bank currently holds 90,000 samples, including 46,000 samples of seeds. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko was briefed ...

Director of the Israel Plant Gene Bank, Einav Mayzlish Gati, says, “We are located within three continents - Europe, Asia and Africa - making this very small land of Israel a hotspot of bio ...

Could the key to securing the world's food supply for the future be hidden in the DNA of crops from the distant past?

The chief Scientific officer of the Plant Protection Directorate (PPD), Matthew Tabone, has told The Malta Independent on Sunday that the process of micro-propagation, that is, genetic cloning, is ...