One of the Grand Old Men of plant genetic resources conservation, Professor Gian-Tommaso Scarascia-Mugnozza, died today at Viterbo. It is perhaps indicative of his stature and influence that there is a Scarascia Mugnozza Community Genetic Resource Centre at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, in Chennai (Madras), India. He was 85.
Weird coconuts for sale
We briefly blogged about the rare horned coconut before. But I didn’t know you could actually buy one. Or other strange coconuts for that matter. Talk about adding value to agrobiodiversity.
Venetian agrobiodiversity bas relief
Animal Genetic Resources reminder
The newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the IUCN Species Programme has just alerted me to a (fairly) recent edition of FAO’s international journal Animal Genetic Resources which I think we missed. It contains, among many other interesting things, a paper on “Conservation status of wild relatives of animals used for food” by P.J.K. McGowan.
Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault…
…by country of origin, on its third birthday.