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The European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources (EURISCO) provides information about more than 2 million accessions of crop plants and their wild relatives, preserved ex situ by approximately 400 collections....
The video is a short documentary about the genetically-diverse Qadisha valley in Lebanon, one of the hotspots identified in the GenRes Bridge project.
Read the interview with Magda Bou Dagher, of Saint-Joseph...
- Type: Multimedia
- Adaptation Trees Biodiversity Climate change Breed Crop Wild Relatives
Swiss National Information System for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
PlantSearch is a database of living plant, seed and tissue collections held by botanic gardens and arboreta around the world.
It includes over 1.5 million collection records from more than 1,000 contributing...
- Type: Database
- Collections Botanic garden Crop Wild Relatives Seed Ex situ Conservation Biodiversity
In partnership with the Crop Trust, researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada are pre-breeding wild sunflowers to bring more of these species’ amazing survival skills to farmers’ fields. Here the story....
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Climate change Breeding Adaptation Threat Farmers Crop Wild Relatives
Many crop wild realtives (CWRs) are underrepresented in crop gene banks. With at least one-third of known plant species maintained in botanic garden living collections, the botanic garden community serves as an important...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Crops Genebanks Crop Wild Relatives Botanic garden Genetic research Ex situ Conservation
