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Special publication on livestock genetic resources

by Luigi on August 19, 2008

Livestock Science has a special issue on animal genetic resources. Or it will have, it doesn’t seem to be out yet, although some corrected proofs are available. You can get a flavour of the thing with the introduction. Here are some of the highlights:

  • Animal genetic resource trade flows: Economic assessment
  • Genebank development for the conservation of livestock genetic resources in the United States of America
  • Molecular characterization of breeds and its use in conservation
  • Animal genetic resource trade flows: The utilization of newly imported breeds and the gene flow of imported animals in the United States of America
  • Research opportunities in the field of animal genetic resources
  • Present status of the conservation of livestock genetic resources in Brazil
  • Saving threatened native breeds by autonomous production, involvement of farmers organization, research and policy makers: The case of the Sicilo-Sarde breed in Tunisia, North Africa
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Gregory Vaughan has news for fans of oca, and other Andean roots and tubers.

I just got back from the Parque de la Papa, and it turns out that they are indeed in the midst of a new repatriation of something like 78 accessions of virus-free oca (I think it’s just oca, with no mashua or ulluco yet) from CIP. They have transferred the vitroplants to soil bags that they are raising in a sterile greenhouse.

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