(THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway supports them all. It is the world's most famous backup site for seeds that are more precious than data. Tens of thousands of new seeds from around the ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adriana Craciun, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s ...