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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
The goal of GenTree was to provide the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools for optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FGR) in Europe in the context of...
- Type: Project
- Climate change Conservation Genomic data Genotyping Phenotyping data
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
Preserving biodiversity in the changing environment is a challenge which can be addressed on several fronts. This includes the conservation of the genetic diversity of forest trees.
Findings on Norway spruce show how plants and animals can adapt better to climate change than previously envisaged. From the study "Transcriptional profiling of epigenetic regulators in somatic embryos during temperature...
- Type: Case studies/success stories
- Adaptation Climate change Epigenetic Genetic research
B4EST is an EU-funded H2020 project which focuses on adaptive breeding for productive, sustainable and resilient forests under climate change.
Climate change can increase forest vulnerability to damage and disease,...
A Greek professor of forest genetics, Phil Aravanopoulos, travels back to his place of birth, the Lesvos island. Inspired by the father of botany, Theophrastus, who was born and lived on the island, he researches the...
- Type: Multimedia
- History Genetic research Cultural heritage Botany Climate change
In this short video Colin Kelleher, the leader of the EUFORGEN working group on the conservation of forest genetic resources in the context of climate change, summarizes the main findings of the group's study. He...
- Type: Multimedia
- Decision support tool Conservation Climate change Genetic research
