Sharing seeds was common practice among farmers throughout history until the rise of agribusiness. Now seeds are trademarked and regulated, but there's a new place to get them for free: the library.
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US farmers are planting more and more acres with seeds coated with neonicotinoid pesticides. An ecologist explains why this approach is overkill and may be doing more harm than good.
There were some African food security initiatives from 2017 that deserve a special mention for the precedent they set.
Findings from several scientific studies show the real impact of Rwanda's agricultural policies and the challenges it faces.
If you want to live on Mars, you're going to need to grow food. Seeds are naturally equipped to handle challenging Earth environments, but how well can they survive what they'll encounter off-planet?
A seed contains nearly everything a tree needs to get growing. Just add a dash of water, a bit of warmth and the right location, and you'll be seeing green in no time.
Is providing birds with food and water making them too dependent? Or are gardens just the new frontier of Australia's urban landscape? New research aims to find out.
We know very little about Australia's most threatened plants.
Since 2000, the growth of the commercial seed market has almost tripled. More than 63% of the world’s commercial seed is now owned by six corporations.
A tall grass-like plant in the Western Cape has managed to dupe dung beetles into rolling and spreading its seeds.
Carnivorous predators play an important, and until now unknown, role in preserving plant populations in the territories they inhabit.
More than 90% of Africa' small-scale famers get their seeds from informal systems. Governments and donors should shift their attention from the formal and invest more in the informal sector.
The fossilized plant Montsechia relied on water to disseminate its genetic material and may rewrite the book on when and how the first flowering plants evolved.
In 1926, just outside of St Petersburg in Russia, botanist and geneticist Nikolai Vavilov set up the Pavlovsk Experimental Station. It was one of the world’s first “seed banks”. The term “seed bank” or…
The large heavy seeds of a species of Australian tree rely upon smaller animals for clumped seed dispersal. Researchers from…
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PhD Candidate, GPEM, The University of Queensland
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Botanist, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and DST/NRF Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences and Paleobotany, Indiana University
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