{"id":343567,"date":"2025-12-14T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/nibbles-millennium-seed-bank-25th-npgs-maize-germplasm-breadfruit-genebank-banana-genebank\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:34:47","slug":"nibbles-millennium-seed-bank-25th-npgs-maize-germplasm-breadfruit-genebank-banana-genebank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=343567","title":{"rendered":"Nibbles: Millennium Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana genebank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/news-and-activity\/2025-10-20\/the-king-joins-podcast-unearthed-the-need-for-seeds\">King Charles III talks about seeds<\/a> with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew&#8217;s Millennium Seed Bank and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy7ekl4yl8o\">Cate Blanchett<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Or read about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/interactive\/science-and-technology\/2025\/10\/15\/how-to-save-madagascars-dwindling-forests\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Or watch a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1128216180?fl=pl&#038;fe=sh\">video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The seed banks of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningagclips.com\/the-silent-safeguard-why-seed-banks-matter-to-farmers-science-and-food-security\/\">National Plant Germplasm System<\/a> in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.<\/li>\n<li>How to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedworld.com\/us\/2025\/10\/13\/how-1500-everyday-growers-are-hacking-the-seed-data-bottleneck\/\">get stuff out of the NPGS<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalpress.com\/2025\/10\/08\/washington-food-systems-leader-joins-international-maize-wheat-center\/\">CIMMYT&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure she and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/rediscovered-seeds-unite-african-community-around-the-taste-of-home-and-improve-organic-corn-breeding\">Chris Mujjabi<\/a> will get to know each other soon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ntbg.org\/stories\/qa-with-dr-diane-ragone\/\">Diane Ragone<\/a>: Not all genebanks are seed banks.<\/li>\n<li>Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/opinions\/1787717\/the-banana-as-a-geopolitical-lever-understanding-belgiums-role-in-tropical-crop-research\">bananas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew&#8217;s Millennium Seed Bank and&#8230; &#8230;Cate Blanchett. 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