Despite the gaps in gene banks discovered by the study, the overall finding was just how successful the growing movement toward protecting these varieties in the past 50 years has been. “What we now ...

Embracing bioinformatics in gene banks The shift from Germplasm Collections towards bio-digital resource centres Date: June 28, 2019 Source: Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research ...

Yet few gene banks meet international standards, set by FAO in 2014, for long-term conservation. Fowler led the first assessment of the state of the world’s plant genetic resources commissioned by FAO ...

Gene Banks` career as a Bull came to a close Monday as the club placed him on waivers. Banks is rehabilitating himself from a ruptured Achilles` tendon he suffered over the summer. It was an injury… ...

The preservation of plant biodiversity is the task of the roughly 1,750 gene banks which are distributed around the world, storing samples from around 7.4 million species in total. It is expected that ...

In the world’s plant gene banks, scientists studied how so many varieties of the humble capsicum worked their way onto our plates. By Veronique Greenwood Peppers are cosmopolitan, a vegetable ...

Former West Philadelphia High, Duke University and NBA standout Gene Banks has been hired as athletic director at Gaston College in Dallas, N.C. Banks will be in charge of managing the athletic ...

The gene banks that house fruits and veggies are, not surprisingly, the top targets of public requests. “The percentage of requests that we [NPGS] really cannot fill overall has grown, system-wide, to ...

Scientists from the IPK have explored, within a perspective paper, the upcoming challenges and possibilities of the future of gene banks. They emphasise that the advancement of gene banks into bio ...