Chris O’Brien, Jayeni Hiti Bandaralage, Raquel Folgado, Sean Lahmeyer, Alice Hayward, Neena Mitter Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Australia The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA., United States Australia’s avocado industry is worth over ~$557 million and produces more than 77,000t. The genetic diversity of […]
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Gayle Volk, USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, United States The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System has over 30,000 clonally maintained accessions within its field, screenhouse, greenhouse, and tissue culture collections. These fruit, nut, tuber, and bulb crop collections are usually not duplicated at secondary locations and are vulnerable to biotic, abiotic, and climatic threats. Only about 15% of […]
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Bart Panis, Bioversity International, Belgium More than 800 million people are undernourished and 200 million children under five years of age are underweight. Moreover, the world’s population is expected to reach 10,500 million by 2050. Reliable and sustainable improvements in yield will thus be needed to meet the demands of this growing population. The availability […]
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