Genebank data seems to be in the air. Just in the past few days, I pontificated about descriptors, Mike Jackson has ...
Genebank data seems to be in the air. Just in the past few days, I pontificated about descriptors, Mike Jackson has reminisced about the early days of rice molecular markers and CGIAR announced a big ...
Helen Anne Curry and Sabina Leonelli's chapter in Agricultural Science as International Development: Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era, entitled "Crop Descriptors and the Forging of ...
Mike Jackson's account of the early molecular work at IRRI's International Rice Genebank is a nice reminder that the idea of the "genomic genebank" (as he calls it) is not as new as it may sounds. In ...
When we think about crops moving around the world -- and we often do around here -- the Columbian Exchange is the canonical example, and why not? The transatlantic movement of maize, potatoes, ...
Terere (amaranth) is mainly a traditional leafy green vegetable in Kenya of course... ...and readily available these days in ...
There is nothing particularly new about the idea that the stuff genebanks conserve should be used. For decades, plant genetic resources specialists have pointed out that conserving crop diversity is ...
Two pieces of work on maize I recently came across are unconnected as to aim and place, but nevertheless make for an interesting combined story. One asks how far maize yield can actually be pushed by ...
Mike Jackson’s account of the early molecular work at IRRI’s International Rice Genebank is a nice reminder that the idea of the “genomic genebank” (as he calls it) is not as new as it may sounds. In ...
You know a crop has arrived when The Economist does a piece on it. Ube (Dioscorea alata), the purple yam long cherished in the Philippines, is indeed suddenly everywhere, and the newspaper for the ...
The COUSIN project aims to conserve (trans situ, no less) and use crop wild relatives in Europe. That "use" part can be tough. But that doesn't stop the fine people at Aardaia. At least where aardaker ...
The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) awarded Dr. Diane Ragone, founder and director emerita of NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute 1, the 2024 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration. Dr. Ragone ...
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