Subject: [NAFEX] Fwd: Roundup of news about threatened genebanks
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:56:01 -0700
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From: PBForum <PBForum@fao.org> Date: October 6, 2010 8:28:17 AM PDT To: pbforum-l@mailserv.fao.org 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: