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Links between trait and ecogeographic data found for Nordic barley landraces

As promised yesterday, here’s a summary of Dag Terje Endresen’s recent paper, by the author himself. Focused Identification of Germplasm (FIGS, Mackay and Street, 2004) is a new method to select plant genetic resources for the improvement of food crops. A recent paper in Crop Science (Endresen, 2010) describes how climate data (derived from the …

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Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter: dead but maybe not yet buried

We are happy to publicize this request by Robert Koebner and Theo van Hintum, and wish them luck with their important initiative. 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 -– …

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