[NAFEX] Fwd: Roundup of news about threatened genebanks
Lon J. Rombough
lonrom at hevanet.com
Wed Oct 6 12:56:01 EDT 2010
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From: PBForum <PBForum at fao.org>
Date: October 6, 2010 8:28:17 AM PDT
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Subject: FW: Roundup of news about threatened genebanks
From: Luigi Guarino
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Subject: Roundup of news about threatened genebanks
I know this forum is not really about germplasm conservation, but I
thought breeders might be interested in a what's going on in some
important genebanks around the world. After all, that's where they
get
a lot of their material from eventually, right?
This explains the latest from the saga of the fruit/berry field
collections at the Vavilov Institute in Russia, which is threatened
by
a housing development:
http://www.vaviblog.com/the-vavilov-institute-responds-to-the-expert-
commissi
on/
And Australia's genebanks are also threatened:
http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/10/australia-and-russian-federation-
shoulder-to-
shoulder-over-genebanks/
And a similar situation has developed over the past several months at
Wellesbourne in the UK:
http://www.vaviblog.com/pavlovsk-is-not-unique/
I think our failure in the genetic resources conservation community
to
quantify costs properly:
http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/10/the-dismal-science-and-dismal-science-
writing
/
And to facilitate the effective use of conserved material:
http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/10/taro-resistant-to-leaf-blight-ready-to-
go/
...is not helping this situation, alas.
But maybe this is the answer?
http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/10/wanna-be-a-hero/
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