Article One Partners (AOP), a leading crowdsourcing patent research firm, just published a unique call to action on its blog. In an article titled Improve Commercial Agriculture with Seed Sampling, ...

Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WCYB) — The Kingsport Public Library is hoping to grow an interest when it comes to gardening. The library, in partnership with Kingsport Cultural Arts, is unveiling a new, satellite ...