Over 70 percent of essential crop wild relative species in urgent need of collection
Monday, March 21, 2016 - 11:20
in Biology & Nature
Many of the wild plants which will be the building blocks for future global food supply are missing from the world's genebanks, according to new research by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in coordination with the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) and the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew.