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HELSINKI — Nearly 10 years after a “doomsday” seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world’s largest ...

For the grass seed industry, spotting weed seeds and other unwanted interlopers among thousands of grass seeds is as tedious as it is necessary. Samples of grass seed are repeatedly analyzed by ...

Exotic pests, shrinking ranges and a changing climate threaten some of the world's most rare and ecologically important plants, and so conservationists establish seed collections to save the seeds in ...

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Staff members transport seed samples into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, on June 3, 2025. Fourteen gene banks from around the world are depositing more than 11,200 ...

First it was the seed catalogs that appeared on the heels of Christmas. Now the seed packets are showing up in my mailbox. Spring must not be far away. Being a garden writer, I often get packs of new ...

Seeds from the UC82B tomato have been found to contain a commercially approved biotech trait. The University of California, Davis, is recalling about 30 tomato seed samples, distributed during the ...

In the seven years since the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened, hundreds of thousands of seed samples have gone into its icy tombs. And not one has come out—until now. This week the International ...

Genetic analysis calls into question the authenticity of older cultivars in seed collections. You have full access to this article via your institution. Seed banks are meant to preserve biodiversity ...