EURISCO: The European search catalogue for plant genetic resources
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The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources, EURISCO, provides information about 1.8 million crop plant accessions preserved by almost 400 institutes in Europe and beyond and represents an important effort for the preservation of world's agrobiological diversity.Abstract:
The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources, EURISCO, provides information about 1.8 million crop plant accessions preserved by almost 400 institutes in Europe and beyond. EURISCO is being maintained on behalf of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources. It is based on a network of National Inventories of 43 member countries and represents an important effort for the preservation of world's agrobiological diversity by providing information about the large genetic diversity kept by the collaborating collections. Moreover, EURISCO also assists its member countries in fulfilling legal obligations and commitments, e.g. with respect to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, the Second Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, or the Convention on Biological Diversity. EURISCO is accessible at http://eurisco.ecpgr.org.read more
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Plant Genetic Conservation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a practical and theoretical introduction to the strategies and actions to adopt for conserving plant genetic variation, as well as explaining how humans can exploit this diversity for sustainable development.
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Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops.
Abhishek Bohra,Laura Almagor,Benjamin Kilian,Shoba Sivasankar,Mario Caccamo,Chikelu,Susan R. McCouch,Rajeev K. Varshney,Rajeev K. Varshney +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed data-informed germplasm collection and management strategies together with adequate policy support will be equally important to improve access to CWRs and their sustainable use to meet food and nutrition security targets.
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Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops
TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed data-informed germplasm collection and management strategies together with adequate policy support will be equally important to improve access to CWRs and their sustainable use to meet food and nutrition security targets.
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MBKbase for rice: an integrated omics knowledgebase for molecular breeding in rice.
Hua Peng,Kai Wang,Zhuo Chen,Yinghao Cao,Qiang Gao,Yan Li,Xiuxiu Li,Hongwei Lu,Huilong Du,Min Lu,Xin Yang,Chengzhi Liang +11 more
TL;DR: A rice sub-database of an integrated omics knowledgebase (MBKbase-rice, www.mbKbase.org/rice), which integrates rice germplasm information, multiple reference genomes with a united set of gene loci, population sequencing data, phenotypic data, known alleles and gene expression data, is reported.
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Embedding Cultivated Diversity in Society for Agro-Ecological Transition
Véronique Chable,Edwin Nuijten,Ambrogio Costanzo,Isabelle Goldringer,Riccardo Bocci,Bernadette Oehen,Frederic Rey,Dionysia A. Fasoula,Judit Feher,Marjo Keskitalo,Beate Koller,Michalis Omirou,Pedro Mendes-Moreira,Gaëlle van Frank,Abdel Kader Naino Jika,Mathieu Thomas,Adanella Rossi +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the results of Diversifood, a European H2020 multi-actor research project, explores the concept of cultivated diversity using various dimensions relevant to foster sustainable organic food systems and agro-ecological transition.
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Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass
TL;DR: Low-input high-diversity mixtures of native grassland perennials can provide more usable energy, greater greenhouse gas reductions, and less agrichemical pollution per hectare than can corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel.
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Improving the nutrient composition of plants to enhance human nutrition and health1
TL;DR: This review focuses on the plant nutritional physiology and biochemistry of two essential human nutrients, iron and vitamin E, to provide examples of the type of information that is needed, and the strategies that can be used, to improve the mineral or organic nutrient composition of plants.
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Plant genetic resources: What can they contribute toward increased crop productivity?
David Hoisington,Mireille Khairallah,Timothy Reeves,Jean-Marcel Ribaut,B. Skovmand,Suketoshi Taba,Marilyn L. Warburton +6 more
TL;DR: The effective and complementary use of all of the technological tools and resources will be required for meeting the challenge posed by the world's expanding demand for food.
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Lipids as renewable resources: current state of chemical and biotechnological conversion and diversification.
TL;DR: Oils and fats are the most important renewable raw materials of the chemical industry making available fatty acids in such purity that they may be used for chemical conversions and for the synthesis of chemically pure compounds.
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