date:Oct 26, 2023
Plant Treaty has sent 1,300 samples of chickpea diversity from 47 different countries around the world.
Some of these seeds may hold characteristics that could aid farmers and researchers in developing improved crop varieties, ones that are better suited to the changing climate, for example, being able to withstand heat, drought, and new pests and diseases, says Kuldeep Singh, the gene bank manager at the ICRISAT.
Caring for a plant genetic resource collection is a labor of love: its a respo