After years of web-based consultation and diligent sifting through the numerous submissions, we now have the final list of “One hundred important questions facing plant science research” in the form of a paper in New Phytologist. The 100-questions thing may be approaching self-parody, but I will resist the temptation to mock the whole enterprise and simply point out here that there are several questions in the list which involve agricultural biodiversity, its conservation and effective use. I’ll leave you with the most obvious example, question E6:
How can we ensure the long-term availability of genetic diversity within socio-economically valuable gene pools?
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