Food and Agriculture

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• Science: Biology: Genetics: Eukaryotic: Plant  (64)

European Workshop on National Plant Genetic Resources Programmes - - Sweden, 24-26 April 2003. Follow-up meeting to the 1998 Braunschweig Symposium that was concerned with the implementation of the Leipzig Global Plan of Action on PGRFA. Site provides full details. [PDF.

Germplasm documentation - - Provides information about types of documentation required to properly conserve, manage and use biodiversity, including: Standards, Protocols and Descriptors Lists; Passport data; Characterization; Evaluation; Monitoring gene flow; Genebank management software; and Information systems.

Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) - - Facilitates management and operation of plant, animal, microbe and invertebrate genetic resources research programs for the Agricultural Research Service. Site provides access to data dictionaries for databases of plant germplasm and forage legumes collections.

International Seed Treaty - - Web portal of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT PGRFA), the global agreement that aims to conserve and further develop, on their farms, the (rapidly eroding) range of farmers' seed varieties that is basis of the world's food supply.

Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) - - FAO portal for the Global System on PGRFA with links to the State of the World's PGRFA, the Global Plan of Action and its implementation and related conferences, agreements and treaties.

Seeds and Survival: Crop Genetic Resources in War and Reconstruction in Africa - - Considers the impact of war, civil strife and low-intensity conflict on the management of plant genetic resources, in regions where crop plant genetic resources are still conserved in situ by small-scale agriculturalists. PDF format.

System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources - - SINGER is the genetic resources information exchange network of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. It provides access to information on the collections of genetic resources held by the CGIAR Centres. Together, these collections comprise over half a million samples of crop, forage and tree germplasm of major importance for food and agriculture.