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1571) Developing Crop Descriptor Lists
The world faces a continual need to increase crop productivity, and to develop new varieties more adapted to changing environmental and biological challenges or to meet the evolving needs of local communities. To meet these needs and challenges, farmers and breeders not only must have access to a wide...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2007
1572) Post-harvest handling of seed collections
The effort put into collecting high-quality seeds may be wasted if you don’t handle collections carefully after harvest. By following these practical guidelines you will be able to avoid unacceptable loss of viability during collecting trips and ensure that seeds arrive at the seed bank in good condition....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014
1573) Trans Situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives
In the face of unprecedented climatic disasters, social conflict, and political uncertainty, integrating in situ and ex situ strategies may become increasingly necessary to effectively conserve crop wild relatives (CWR). This paper introduces the concept of trans situ conservation to safeguard CWR genetic...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
1574) The Benefit-sharing Fund: Crop diversity for food security
The Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) is a fund established under the International Treaty to support projects that manage plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) for the benefit of farmers in developing countries. Activities supported by this Fund include conservation, characterization and...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
1575) The EURISCO-EVA Information System, an innovative approach to the data management of multi-site crop evaluation data
This paper introduces EURISCO-EVA, an extension of the European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources (EURISCO) hosted at and maintained by IPK Gatersleben on behalf of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR). This information system facilitates standardized data...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2024