The digital era is reshaping agricultural practices, opening new avenues for sustainable
growth, and proving indispensable in global challenges like food security and environmental …

Plant genebanks provide genetic resources for breeding and research programs worldwide.
These programs benefit from having access to high-quality, standardized phenotypic and …

Global food security depends on the continual improvement of a relatively small number of
food and feed crops. Today's food supply is heavily dependent on the movement of seed …

The barley old cultivars can be used as a source of genetic diversity to breed new varieties
well adapted to different environmental conditions. In this study, 431 European barley …

ABSTRACT 4th Industrial Revolution technologies that blur the lines across physical, digital
and biological domains have entered seed systems. The digitalisation of seeds' DNA is …

Contestations about the way in which digital sequence information is used and regulated
have created stumbling blocks across multiple international policy processes. Such schisms …

Societal Impact Statement As the world is facing a climate crisis and a growing population,
feeding this population is a big challenge. Genebanks, conserving and providing access to …

Abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and
Benefit-Sharing provide an international legal framework that aims to prevent …

We propose a conceptual framework to explain why some technologies are more difficult to
govern than others in global environmental governance. We start from the observation that …

Societal Impact Statement Global production of bananas, among the top 10 food crops
worldwide, is under threat. Increasing the use of germplasm conserved in genebanks is …