In this month's installment of Field Notes , Susan Knight discusses the importance of seedbanks - in the past and in the future - for the survival of our food crops in an uncertain future. One of my work projects is learning and writing about wild rice, and I got to thinking about preserving wild rice seed into the future. This led me back to an old Field Notes story about Soviet genetics. In this earlier Field Notes, I told the story of Lysenko, a Soviet pseudo-scientist who rejected the