- A critical review on the utility of DNA barcoding in biodiversity conservation. Not bad, but not by itself.
- A whole genome DArT assay to assess germplasm collection diversity in common beans. It works, and can distinguish Andean from Mesoamerican accessions.
- Optimization of a SNP assay for genotyping Theobroma cacao under field conditions. It works, and is being used in Ghana.
- A Global Assessment of Salmon Aquaculture Impacts on Wild Salmonids. Meta-analysis shows farming salmon and trout in an area has in general been bad for their wild relatives there.
- Genome-wide selection in cassava. High correlations between SNPs and several phenotypic traits of interest to breeders mean that selection time could be cut by half. Could.
- Cereal landraces genetic resources in worldwide GeneBanks. A review. We don’t have enough data. On so many different levels.
- Coevolutionary genetic variation in the legume-rhizobium transcriptome. Wait, does this mean we should be conserving Rhizobium too?
@cereal landraces genetic resources – I hazard to guess that we do have the data, at so many different levels. The problem is that they are scattered! If you comb the literature for studies that use landrace material from gene banks, you are likely to find that the data such studies generate are difficult to link back to gene bank collections; and if, then there are few gene banks which bother to collect in their databases. The unique identifier concept for gene bank accession might help, but it won’t solve the problem of duplicate accessions that is inherent in the system due to poor passport documentation.