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Report shows rootcrop as potential carotinoid source
http://www.isaaa.org/kc/CBTNews/2005_Issues/March/CBT_March_22.htm#com
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Threat to wheat genetic
resources
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20051130/01
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Horticulture
Cultivars Performance Database
HORTIVAR
is a new tool for safeguarding information on the agronomic performance of
horticultural cultivars in relation to agro-ecological conditions,
cultivation practices, the occurrence of pests and diseases, market
requirements, and consumer preferences...
·
Developing-world universities miss out on cassava research
funding
Nagib M. A. Nassar laments that funds for cassava
research are normally directed towards international research centres, wich are not short of
money or provisions, rather than towards those programmes
run by universities in developing countries.
(extracted from SciDevNet : GM Crops - Readers' Comments)
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Peter H. Raven to
receive from the President of the United States the National Medal of
Sciences, the highest award for scientific
accomplishments in
USA.
·
African tree yields
promising bacterium
A wild strain of the bacterium
Escherichia coli, which has recently been isolated form a product of the
African karité tree, could transform toxic
compounds into ones useful to the food and chemical industries, say French
researchers.
(extracted
from SciDevNet)
·
Looking for
drought-design crop plant.
(extracted from
Science in Africa Magazine)
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The rape of the
Pelargoniums...
and the export of African traditional knowledge.
Nature conservation officers frustrated as hands tied with red tape that
should be catching consortiums picking and exporting several tons of African
flora.
By Janice Limson
(extracted from Science in Africa
Magazine)
·
Brazil regulates
research on genetic resources
Luisa Massarani
(extracted from SciDevNet)
·
Has passed away in
May 5th this year, Charles M. Rick Jr, a pioneer of plant genetic resources.
·
Decades
of Cassava research bear fruit
(extracted from IDRC Reports)