50 years of traditional crop conservation a success, but some crops still lack protection

A global analysis of the representation of traditional farmer varieties (often called landraces) of 25 major crops in gene banks around the world has shown that tremendous progress has been made over more than a half-century toward their conservation, while also identifying the most important gaps remaining to be filled. Their global study “State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of twenty-five major crops,” was published May 9 in the journal Nature Plants.


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Source: Phys.org