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  1. Citizen science to conserve apples.
  2. Citizen science to breed apples.
  3. Citizen science to conserve the coco de mer.
  4. Conserving a goat-antelope in Sumatra. Maybe try citizen science?
  5. Sourcing seeds for reforestation is tough. Maybe try citizen science?
  6. Art to conserve seeds.
  7. Scientists get help from citizens to collect improbable bananas of PNG.
  8. Australian genebank gets a biosafety facility. Paid for by citizens.
  9. The legendary Pamela Soltis on polyploidy. She’s a citizen too.

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Genebanks at the summit

The preliminary ideas for transforming the food system, which will, ahem, feed into the UN Food Summit, are out.

https://twitter.com/FoodSystems/status/1377628805787959299

There’s a quite a bit in there about diversity — of crops, production systems and diets — but let me single out the four solutions which explicitly mention genebanks:

  1. Action Track 3.10: Increasing agrobiodiversity for improved production and resilience.
  2. Action Track 3.14: Broadening the genetic base of nature-positive production systems.
  3. Action Track 5.10: Tools of accelerated breeding and trait mining underserved crops.
  4. Action Track 5.21: Long-term conservation of food diversity in gene banks and in the field, and sustained diversification of the food basket.

Not bad, eh?

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