For flowering plants, this cycle begins with a seed. Then with water, roots and seeds shoots will emerge. The roots soak up nutrients, this gives the shoot energy to push towards the sunlight.

Only a few blocks from the Hermitage was a collection of more than 380,000 "living, breathing samples of seeds, roots and fruits of some 2500 species of food crops that had been collected by Russia's ...

Maddie Yang talks with Alan Kissinger of the Seed Savers Exchange about the organization's work to preserve seeds from around ...