A large deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has taken the number of seed samples stored at the facility to more than a million. The so-called "doomsday vault"—located on a remote Norwegian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany shows off a specimen of frozen plant ...

The government plans to deposit additional rice seed samples in “doomsday vaults” here and abroad in a move to preserve the ...

MORE than 4,000 rice samples from the Philippines were stored in an Arctic vault as part of efforts to protect the country’s ...

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 ...

Coimbatore's Seed Testing Laboratory emphasizes international accreditation for seed exporters to facilitate global quality seed movement.