The ability of weeds to evolve is key to their success, and the relationship between weeds
and humans is marked by co-evolution going back to the agricultural revolution, with weeds …

Wheat rust can cause catastrophic crop failures. The Green Revolution succeeded in part
thanks to the deployment of wheat with genetic resistance to stem rust. The appearance of a …

Till late in the 20th century, biological diversity has been understood and addressed in terms
of “genetic resources”. This paper proposes a history of this “genetic resources” concept and …

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal
dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic …

Seeds and other plant materials in seed and gene bank collections are rarely considered
adequately conserved today unless genetically identical duplicate samples have been …

Accelerating the rate of genetic gain has in recent years become a key objective in plant
breeding for the Global South, building on the availability of new data technologies and …

This paper charts the history of the Rockefeller Foundation's participation in the collection
and long-term preservation of genetic diversity in crop plants from the 1940s through the …

The “Green Revolution”(GR) is often portrayed as a humanitarian development programme
in which crop varieties, cultivation practices and expertise were transferred essentially from …

The article analyzes the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) as a specific security
technology created to deal with the ecological threat of biodiversity loss. Built in 2008 inside …

Genebanking, the process of preserving genetic resources, is a central practice in the
modern management of crop genetics, especially for the species used for food and …