January 22, 2010January 23, 2010 by Luigi Guarino

Genebank manager in the spotlight

Daniel Debouck, genebank manager at CIAT in Colombia, is featured in the next issue of Bioversity’s Geneflow magazine. Daniel is a world expert on beans. And an esteemed colleague.

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Nancy White says:

January 23, 2010 at 2:12 am

great to see Daniel profiled! Thanks for the pointer.

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