#germplasmconservation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #germplasmconservation, aggregated by home.social.
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Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project
https://montezumaorchard.org/ #Colorado #FruitToot #Horticulture #GermplasmConservation
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Colorado's Gold Mountain Orchard preserves over a century of historic apple varieties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrrezIefgrM #Colorado #FruitToot #Horticulture #GermplasmConservation
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"Processing Maize Ears at the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station"
This is an introduction to some of what they do maintaining maize agrobiodiversity. This work doing plant germplasm conservation is done by USDA as well as land grant universities in the US. The work was already underfunded before the recent changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7cbvDKjTA #PlantBreeding #GermplasmConservation #Agriculture @plantscience
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"Lene Krøl Andersen will take over as the new executive director of the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen) on March 15. NordGen is a key Nordic knowledge hub for plant, livestock and forest genetic resources and a gene bank for seeds. It plays a key role in work on climate adaptation and in enhancing the competitiveness of Nordic agriculture."
https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-nordgen-director-march #GermplasmConservation #Nordic #Agriculture #Horticulture