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GROW Webinar - Making ex situ plant conservation more effective: Conserving genetic diversity using DNA as well as simple, affordable proxy metrics.
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GROW Webinar - Making ex situ plant conservation more effective: Conserving genetic diversity using DNA as well as simple, affordable proxy metrics.

Sean Hoban is a Tree Conservation Biologist at The Morton Arboretum in Chicago USA. Sean also has a leading role in the IUCN SSC Conservation Genetic Specialist Group, GEO BON, and the Coalition for Conservation Genetics. He has a...

20 Feb 2024

29 Feb 2024 - 29 Feb 2024

GROW Webinar – Seed Storage Behavior: What Do We Know Now That We Didn't Know 50 Years Ago?
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GROW Webinar – Seed Storage Behavior: What Do We Know Now That We Didn't Know 50 Years Ago?

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:00 - 16:00 CST (USA)

Thursday, 16 May 2024 8:00 - 9:00 (NZST)

20 Feb 2024

15 May 2024 - 15 May 2024

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Banking on Diversity in Nigeria: A Winning Team

With a pair of tweezers, Mary Aditiku picks up a tiny okra seed, turns it over, and puts it back in place. Her hand is steady; her movements are precise. She repeats this action dozens of times, moving quickly across the plastic...

20 Feb 2024

Jane Toll: Catalyzing and Celebrating Crop Diversity
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Jane Toll: Catalyzing and Celebrating Crop Diversity

In this second installment of our Seed Heroes series, we celebrate Jane Toll, the woman, the collector, and the influencer behind the creation of the Crop Trust, which this year celebrates 20 years since it was founded in 2004. 

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9 Feb 2024

My first story (record)
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My first story (record)

8 Feb 2024

six bowls full of lentil varieties of different colors
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Lentils: The Tiny Giants of Nutrition and Food Security

Pulses, the dried edible seeds of plants in the legume family, have been a staple in diets around the world for millennia. As we approach World Pulses Day, our focus turns to one of the most versatile members of the group, the len...

7 Feb 2024

In the Media

How Rice Hidden by a Woman Fleeing Slavery in the 1700s Could Help Her Descendants

Descendants of enslaved Africans in Suriname, known as the Saamaka Maroons, cultivated a unique rice variety which they hid in their hair when fleeing plantations in the 17th century. The Anne van Dijk Rice Research Center (SNRI/A...

30 Jan 2024

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Saving Every Grain of Rice: A Q&A with Jerry Tjoe Awie

Jerry Tjoe Awie is a rice breeder. The only one in Suriname, a small country on the northeastern coast of South America. Jerry is also the Director of the Anne van Dijk Rice Research Centre (ADRON), Suriname’s national rice...

30 Jan 2024

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