Sentences with phrase «gene banks»

Funding constraints, however, hinder the ability of gene banks to provide information on seeds, limiting their usefulness to plant breeders.

Among those collections, held in 14 major international gene banks, are thousands of varieties of seed used to grow 17 major world crops.

Using samples from gene banks, they recently identified 30 varieties of common beans that can stand up to temperatures that would otherwise cause the crops to fail.

In the short term, such gene banks allow scientists to study endangered species and learn how best to sustain them in the future.

So the issue is not about being for or against gene banks, it is about the sole reliance on one conservation strategy that, in itself, has a lot of inherent problems.

This has happened throughout the ex situ system, not just in gene banks of developing countries.

Comparing crop pathogens, which can vary widely in virulence and impact, turns out to be remarkably international, and examining different plant strains at gene banks around the world sometimes needs to be done in person.

The United Kingdom's Frozen Ark Project has taken on the mission of creating a network of similar gene banks around the world devoted to endangered animals.

Gene banks hold hundreds of thousands of seeds and tissue culture materials collected from farmers» fields and from wild, ancestral populations, providing the raw material that plant breeders need to create crops of the future.

ScienceInsider will have coverage Wednesday from Moscow on a crucial case on Russia's plant gene bank near St. Petersburg.

In a 1996 survey of crop gene banks in 151 countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that many facilities were rapidly deteriorating and had a large backlog of samples needing regeneration.

Whether you take this story as fact or myth, Noah's undertaking shares many striking similarities with current efforts to establish gene banks.

And the centre hopes to establish links with similar gene banks in Africa and the US.

Night after night Rienhoff tediously compared his daughter's DNA sequence with reference sequences stored in several major genomic databases — Ensembl, Heidelberg, and the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics gene bank, among others.

Beyond their value as carbon sinks, or medical plunder, plants are now seen to have value in terms of the vast gene bank they represent for crops, their ecosystem services and as «natural», spiritual capital.

Even today the main supporter of the Trinidad gene bank apart from the Trinidad government is the British chocolate manufacturers» trade group.

Researchers from various institutions are increasingly bringing troves of DNA sequences into huge gene banks in hopes of tackling diseases.

Still, he questions whether the international gene bank system has the funding and infrastructure to absorb all of the at - risk populations.

To calculate the genetic diversity of the tigers of a century ago, the scientists turned to a serendipitous gene bank: stacks of tiger pelts and bones in museums.

Gene bank research and pre-breeding activities.

Other gene banks, such as Iceland's deCODE project, store human genetic material for medical research.

We've hidden them in Norway's icy mountains, buried them in subterranean vaults — there's even talk of sending gene banks to the moon.

It» s pretty much impossible to introduce the idea of gene banks without bringing up the biblical story of Noah.

A researcher for the International Rice Research Institute transfers new rice specimens inside its rice gene bank in the Philippines.

a increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development, and plant and livestock gene banks to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular in least developed countries

Then a veterinary friend did a little research and I began to expose the profitable practice that added very little to the canine gene bank but lot of $ $ $ to the OFA bank.

Only those animals born from parents registered by the Society are considered purebred and can be registered and maintained in the official gene bank registry.

The arrival of a new pest threat, for example, will inevitably send agronomists searching through gene bank collections for pest - resistant seeds — often, only a handful of seeds may have the needed trait.

But it is the network of 1,700 workhorse gene banks worldwide, including Vavilov's Institute and ICARDA, that actually maintain the flow of seeds used by plant breeders to develop new crop varieties.

In addition to the creation of the Global Crop Diversity Trust to oversee gene banks, the Plant Treaty also established a benefit - sharing fund, requiring companies and countries using banked seeds to contribute money — if they both commercialize the seeds and restrict research access to them.

The recent political unrest in Egypt included an attack on the Egyptian Desert Gene Bank.

The trust is a partnership of FAO and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which runs 11 major gene banks.

Crop gene banks around the world hold a total of perhaps 2 million varieties of plants.

«There is a great urgency to safeguard crop diversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene banks.

After identifying hotspots of CWR diversity globally and comparing these against the CWR species already preserved in gene banks, the scientists have now generated a list of taxa in critical need of future protection.

The CGIAR system consists of 15 centers, plus an array of gene banks.

It is home to a gene bank for the coral in the reefs around the Keys and dozens of tanks that grow new baby corals.

Genes of known existing varieties are now being preserved in «gene banks» set up in thirteen international centers.

That's why I lead research at BRRI to discover native varieties in our Gene Bank that might have higher amounts of micronutrients to help combat iron and zinc deficiencies.

Tom Beeston, CEO of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, said: «Breeding numbers of all our native equine breeds continue to decline, if not halted soon our gene bank may be needed to reconstitute a breed, it really is that serious.

The descendant of the centre set up by the British, the gene bank is now managed by Spence's research unit.

The gene bank is now trying to create a $ 16 million dollar endowment fund.

Plotting a revolution against the scientists in control, this insurgent «naturalist» society targets the gene bank and central radio tower in a war to wrest the world from the scientists and from genetic perfection.

«The gene banks are drastically underrepresenting wild relatives,» he warns.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 1:20 pm: Colin Khoury, of CIAT and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will discuss a recently completed inventory of CWR in the United States, as well as plans for protecting these plants both in gene banks and in the wild.

Gene banks around the world hold tens of thousands of examples of wild wheat varieties.

The first global survey of the distribution and conservation of 1076 wild relatives of 81 crops finds that more than 95 % are insufficiently safeguarded in the world's gene banks, which store seeds and other plant tissues that can be used for future breeding efforts.

Some 70 % of the wild populations examined by the study, including the relatives of banana, cassava, wheat, and sorghum, are considered high priority for collection; 300 could not be located in any gene bank.

Also today, the Global Conservation Trust announced plans to raise a $ 260 million endowment for gene banks.

Most affected are gene banks in developing countries.