- Educational materials for conservation.
- Seminar on agroecology next week by Professor of Agroecology Steve Gliessman.
- Why is there a citron in Van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece?
- APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: “Meeting the Challenge of Exceptional Plant Conservation: Technologies and Approaches.”
More online genebank training
…MSBP’s popular Seed Conservation Techniques (SCT) training course will be running from the 11th to the 22nd of October 2021. Following the Partnership’s agreed Seed Conservation Standards, the course provides trainees with the knowledge needed to collect, conserve and manage high quality ex situ collections of wild plant seeds. Topics covered will include: planning a seed collection programme, assessing and collecting techniques, post-harvest handling, measuring seed moisture content, seed processing and quality assessment, and seed germination and dormancy. After a successful first online version was piloted last year, we will again offer a fully online 2-week training course with content provided online as a mixture of live sessions, pre-recorded training modules and practical exercises.
More info on the Kew website.
Want to learn about genebanks (and much much more)?
Thanks to funding from a USDA-NIFA-Higher Education Challenge Grant Program, the good folks at Colorado State University are offering a new online course on Plant Genetic Resources- Genomes, Genebanks, and Growers. You will:
- Discover the origins of plant genetic resources
- Appreciate the role they play in global food systems
- Learn about plant domestication and diversification
- Understand their genetic properties and the forces that shape them
- Explore geographic patterns of plant diversity
It looks great. Find out more here. Starts in August. I’m kinda tempted to take it myself…
Watch and learn
The annual courses organized by Wageningen University on Plant Genetic Resources and Resilient Seed Systems for Sustainable Food Security and on Contemporary Approaches to Genetic Resources Conservation and Use will be online this year. Find out more and apply.
Oh, wait, so will EUCARPIA’s international conference on Breeding and Seed Sector Innovations for Organic Food Systems.
Anybody zoomed out yet?
Nibbles: Goodness edition
- What makes a good seed?
- What makes good seed conservation?
- No, really, what makes good seed conservation?
- What makes better seeds?
- What makes good seed planting?
- What makes a good tree for seed planting?