Seeds

A Roman-era marble portrait head has been handed over to the Greek state by the Archaeological Museum of the University of Munster in Germany after tests confirmed concerns about the legality of its provenance and is now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. 

Some 120,000 seeds are stored in special rooms at temperatures ranging from -18 to 5 degrees Celsius, preserving the rich plant genetic diversity for the future at the Seed Gene Banks in the capital Ankara and the western province of İzmir.

Some 120,000 genetic specimens are kept under protection in the country's two seed gene banks, Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı has said.

The oldest plant ever to be “resurrected” has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds beating the previous record holder by some 30,000 years

In an interview for AGERPRES, former Minister of Agriculture and current head of the Academy for Agricultural Science Valeriu Tabara said that in Romania, the ongoing, undisputable climate change has brought along a gradual rise in temperatures in the last 15-20 years, by 2 - 2.5 degrees Celsius on average, thus triggering a soil drying process, particularly in the regions of Dobrogea, the Danu

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BELGRADE - The corn harvest has practically been completed, and the yield stands at around eight tons per hectare, while wheat was planted on 600,000 hectares, which is more than last year, Vukosav Sakovic, director of the Zita Srbije association, told Tanjug.

In October, Bulgaria will send the first samples of seed germ plasm of typical Bulgarian crop varieties to the Global Seed Vault in Norway, also known as the Noah's Ark.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seedbank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres from the North Pole.