Sentences with phrase «plant genetic resources in»

Geoffrey Hawtin, director — general of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources in Rome, says farmers in parts of Somalia are without seeds for the coming growing season.

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Associate Scientist in the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, duty stations included Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Rome, Italy (1996 - 1999)

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

In Nairobi last week, Serageldin stated that «a system - wide effort will lead to a more comprehensive approach» to ensure that plant genetic resources are conserved and used.

It focuses on securing the wild relatives of 29 of 64 crops that are listed in an annex to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Elizabete Carmo - Silva, LEC lecturer in plant sciences for food security, said: «Both jointed grass and barley are regarded as valuable genetic resources for improving wheat disease resistance, our research suggests that they can also be used to improve biomass production.»

The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development of wheat plants with improved traits.

That mechanism probably will not help solve the type of problem that emerged last week when Queensland declared «sovereignty» over its plants and animals in an attempt to ensure that profits from genetic resources went to the local government (see This Week).

Paek is the senior author of a paper to be published this week in The Plant Cell that takes advantage of the genetic resources in this model species to reveal important underpinnings of drought responses in plants.

Because the newly created genetic resource is so broad, representing distantly related rice species that have evolved in habitats throughout Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia, it enables researchers to zero - in on valuable sequences that have been preserved as the plants adapted to different growing conditions.

SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation in plant and animal genomes and are, thus, an important resource to biologists.

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Russia's renamed N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources may play a role in helping develop new strains of more heat - and drought - resistant crops.