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Following Brassica into Genebank Database Hell

Scientists at The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) have released the first web repository for Brassica (mustard plants) trait data to tackle reproducibility, user controlled data sharing and analysis worldwide. Scoring the versatile crop’s beneficial traits will assist Brassica breeders in improving their crop yields, increased nutritional benefits and reduce our carbon footprint through biofuel production. …

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Nibbles: German zucchini, Nice tomatoes, Genebank Database Hell, Pakistan genebank, Brachiaria genomics, Haiti agriculture, Chinese potatoes, Green green grass of home, Domestication book, Rudisha returns!

Deadly zucchini sweep through Germany. Actually just one possible hybrid with ornamental squash, apparently, probably, I’m told by a vegetables expert. Everybody loves photos of heirloom tomatoes. Sorting out genebank data management at IRRI. It’s very tricky to move the Pakistan national genebank. Where are the Al-resistance genes in Brachiaria? Le jardin créole in Haiti …

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Genebank database hell goes mobile

With a mighty leap, the ICARDA genebank has just landed squarely in the 21st century. You can now download an app and search the international collection managed by the centre from your Android phone. iPhone version coming soon. If you test it out, leave your comments here and they will reach the relevant ICARDA geek.

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Luigi speaks! A way out of genebank database hell?

There’s nothing like being associated with manifest power to pique the interest of mainstream media. And so it was when The White House, no less, hosted a breakfast on Innovation for Global Development. Announced at the breakfast was a new version of “the Germplasm Resources Information Network-Global (GRIN-Global), a powerful but easy-to-use, Internet-based information management …

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Featured: A way out of genebank database hell or a siren song?

Simone, Fawzy and Luigi debate the virtues of different approaches to sharing germplasm information: There are people who need and trust only the database type of information and others who are comfortable, productive and creative with more informal, network type of knowledge sharing. The fact is that the second type of user group has been …

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