Comments on: Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter: dead but maybe not yet buried

By: Sergey Alexanian

Sergey Alexanian — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:38:11 +0000

Scientists and curatorts from the N.I.Vavilov Institute fully support this initiative. PGR Newsletter very important valuable publication and source of information for PGR community.

By: B.Sasikumar

B.Sasikumar — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:38:05 +0000

PGR Newsletter must be revived.Though not a high profile journal,it was a very important source of disseminating knowledge on all aspects of all crop plans and useful to students,researchers and even laymen!
Pl.revive it in the new year!Wish you all the best Prof.Koebner

By: Francia Fuenmayor

Francia Fuenmayor — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:09:44 +0000

I fully support this initiative. I would like to this Newsletter could be published in Spanish also.

By: Kuberan

Kuberan — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:14:53 +0000

PGR is very useful for students and researcher.

By: Devendra Gauchan

Devendra Gauchan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:07:13 +0000

PGRN was one of the most widely circulated newsletters in the developing countries and was an important source of information on PGRs. I full support to revive this newsletter as a web based freely available journal.

Devendra Gauchan, PhD

By: Andrew Lever

Andrew Lever — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:24:56 +0000

This is sad but not unexpected news. Funding for conservation research and solving these issues is all ways the first to be cut. My personal opinion is that the Newsletter is an essential tool to highlight achievements in plant genetic resources conservation and discuss problems therefore leading to positive solutions. It is a framework and a network for ideas and to strengthen collaborations. A newsletter sent via email or creation of a webpage would make the journal paperless and more environmental friendly, but still require man hours and would exclude our important partners who live in remote areas and or have no internet access. The newsletter has an important physical presence to PGR scientists and to scientists in closely related fields and to non-scientists. We must champion the case to revive the Newsletter to our funders.

By: Debjyoti Sen Gupta

Debjyoti Sen Gupta — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:21:50 +0000

I fully support the initiative and looking eagerly to see it very soon.

By: Smita Mishra

Smita Mishra — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:56:59 +0000

I would be happy to see the Journal again. For Scientists working on PGR it is indispensible.It was providing rich source of information on plant science. I am looking forward to see it again.

By: Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter: an update

Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter: an update — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:15:00 +0000

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By: Dr. K. Vijayan

Dr. K. Vijayan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:21:58 +0000

I fully endorse the idea of bringing back the news letter for the benefit of the whole plant breeding and genetics community