What IRRI’s DDG doesn’t mention in this video is that all those accessions (or many of them anyway) whose genomes are going to be painstakingly sequenced for the greater good of rice breeders everywhere are maintained, and have been for years, in the IRRI genebank. So I’m happy to say it for him. The international collections maintained by the CGIAR Centres are often called the crown jewels of the system. Cinderellas, more like.
Featured: Taro leaf blight
Zachee Ngoko answers (sort of) Afiniki Bawa Zarafi’s about the CABI Global Plant Clinic’s work on taro leaf blight.
Taro blight (P. colocassiae) is still a threat to farmers and “Achu” and “Ekwan” consummers in Cameroon. In the Western Highlands (WHL) and South West regions, that crop is disappearing at an alarming rate. Eating habit is being shifted to rice or maize or others comodities. At this moment, after the primary works we carried with CABI, future activities are slow to come. If nothing is done, in the next few years, that crop will joint cowpea (for the WHL) in a closed cupboard. Can you contribute? Please contact us.
Is CABI listening?
Adding value to agrobiodiversity
Nibbles: Livestock films, Sea cucumbers, Plant collecting, Nutritional composition, Intensification, Mongolian pastoralists, Low resource tolerance
- More livestock films than you can shake a stick at.
- The Consortium all at sea.
- Road trip! Herbarium specimen collecting in Nepal.
- Call for nutritional composition data on the staples of Papua New Guinea.
- Wanna intensify agriculture in the highlands of East Africa? Here comes the PowerPoint.
- The Tragedy of the Commons averted in Mongolia through collective action.
- A new approach to functional traits? I don’t see the difference myself, but I’ll take their word for it.
Armenian agrobiodiversity on sale
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