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Theo van Hintum, is moving on from his gig as Head of the CGN-Plant group, and the job is being advertised, albeit under a slightly different name. Theo has come up several times on the blog over the years. Which is not surprising, as he’s been a pillar of the global plant genebank community for …
European Seed is a new(ish) magazine aimed at the European seed sector. Its latest issue features a discussion about what academic institutions have to do to access and make available plant genetic resources according to all the relevant rules and regulations. Among the various experts involved in the Q&A is Theo van Hintum, of the …
Congratulations to Bert Visser (pictured, right, entertaining visitors from the Korean genebank recently) on his retirement from the Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands, the Dutch national genebank. And likewise congratulations to Sipke Joost Hiemstra and Theo van Hintum on taking over his responsibilities.
It’s been five years since Robert Koebner and Theo van Hintum published the following call to action on our blog: There has not been an issue of the Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter (PGRN) for a year. Its loss means that there is no longer a sensible outlet for “grey” literature on PRG -– such as …
An interesting announcement from our friends at CGN. In the field of PGR documentation, we have seen, over the last decades, dramatic improvements: from card box files only mentioning the name of the variety and the location in the seed-storage, to internet accessible databases, sometimes with possibilities to order PGR on-line including click-wrap SMTA. However, …
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