Bioversity’s Michael Mackay was recently interviewed on Radio Australia about plans to lead us all out of genebank database hell. Good luck to him!
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Bioversity’s Michael Mackay was recently interviewed on Radio Australia about plans to lead us all out of genebank database hell. Good luck to him!
Thanks for the Radio Australia reference. Here’s a link directly to an MP3 of the interview with Michael on Breakfast Club.
Seed Banks: Armageddon seeds coming to a store near you.
12 January 2009
Seed banks have been built over the last few decades to ensure that if there was ever a cataclysm (flood, climate change or pestilence) then crops will still be able to be replanted. Now Michael Mackay from Bioversity in Rome wants these seeds made available. He tells the Breakfast Club why they’re needed right now.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/ra/podcast/breakfastclub/20090112.mp3