Funding constraints, however, hinder the ability of gene banks to provide information on seeds, limiting their usefulness to plant breeders. (e360.yale.edu)
Among those collections, held in 14 major international gene banks, are thousands of varieties of seed used to grow 17 major world crops. (e360.yale.edu)
Using samples from gene banks, they recently identified 30 varieties of common beans that can stand up to temperatures that would otherwise cause the crops to fail. (sciencemag.org)