Restoring the American chestnut

A grant allows American chestnuts to survive, as hybrids with the Chinese species.

Heart-stopping coincidence An interesting blog post by Amelia Hanslow, ostensibly about fat-tailed...
Modifying left, right and center Today’s Daily News section at National Geographic had pieces on...
At work in the CIMMYT maize genebank At work in the maize active collection, CIMMYT germplasm bank,...

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Festivals, rituals and seed-saving go hand in hand, as this photo essay on Koraput’s Adivasis shows for World Indigenous Peoples Day.
Speaking of unlikely alliances, Israeli and Palestinian researchers have teamed up on wheat that can take the heat in a warming, drying Middle East.
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