Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms. WITH a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault closed on February 28th, shutting out a howling Arctic gale and entombing a tonne of new arrivals: 25,000 seed samples from America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Tajikistan, Armenia and Syria. For Cary Fowler, the vault’s American architect, the Syrian chickpeas and fava beans were especially welcome.

The students and faculty of the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) along with the Department of Environment and Forests on Sunday embarked upon the mission to plant 5,000 rare type of saplings within the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra Campus (GKVK) campus in the City.

Ahmedabad: Gujarat government has established Gujarat Bio-diversity Gene Bank (GBGB) for conserving microbial resources which are significant to preserve diversified eco-systems.