Reinhold: Even smaller than a crabapple, some of them.And then the biggest pear I’ve seen in the orchard was actually last year, and it was, I don’t know, maybe about 6 to 8 inches tall, I think.

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

More than 500 native plants in San Diego County are held in a Native Seed Bank at the zoo. Those seeds are dried down to a ...

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 ...

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. They're sown by farmers in the Fertile Crescent region, where ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sudanese officials on Tuesday accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of looting more than 17,000 types of plant genetic strains from a key national research centre in central Al Jazira ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Plant Gene Bank in Lija is to start preserving and safeguarding plant species in the Maltese islands by storing seeds of various Maltese vegetables and fruits, as well as indigenous and ...