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Rediscovering ancient crop varieties
27 April 2021
27 April 2021
Old and diverse crop varieties are packed full of nutrients and adapted to local environmental conditions. But since the 1900s, some 75% of plant genetic diversity has been lost with big implications for food security.
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Collected under Project Funded by International Treaty
Svalbard, Norway, March 2021 – Two hundred of the 324 types of rice varieties deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault last month were collected as...
Status & Challenges of Conservation, Exchange and Use
Rome, Italy, 16 February 2021 – Over 400 people from around the world got online at the same time to listen to international experts discuss the status and...
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Rome, Italy, 22 March 2021 – The International Treaty has released an updated list of passport descriptors for crop wild relatives conserved in situ. This publication, Descriptors for Crop Wild Relatives...
ICRISAT Breeding Programmes Adopt DOIs
04 January 2021
04 January 2021
Vania Azevedo, Head of Genebank, ICRISAT
At its 8th Session in 2019, the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture encouraged CGIAR Centers to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) not just to genebank...