Author: Luigi Guarino

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Getting to grips with ABS

Plant scientist need to have a voice in the policies and practices that are developed internationally. We urge plant scientist to become familiar with the issues in their country and internationally and contribute to the development of effective approaches at all levels. We need to be proactive in developing a code of practice for plant scientists that provides leadership to policy and law makers in governments globally.

“The issues” in question are those concerning access to digital sequence information in particular, and it seems the Global Plant Council have set up a working group “to raise awareness on obligations to respect access and benefit-sharing [ABS] rights under the Convention on Biodiversity, the FAO Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, and the Nagoya Protocols on Access and Benefit Sharing.”

Do contact them if you’re interested in finding out more.

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Tweeting beans

Twitter is often a hellsite, but every once in a while, it really comes through. Case in point is this cool summary of a recent paper on the genetics and physiology of seed dormancy in common beans posted by one of the authors, Dr David Lowry.

https://twitter.com/DavidBLowry/status/1353358445710172161

Now, I know some of you are not going to want to click on the above, so here it is in ThreadReader. And if you just want the bottom line…