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Category: Plants

2017.04.28 / Plants

Tuesday the 26th of May Morning:Start-up meeting for the Nordic project Ecosystem services: Genetic resources and crop wild relatives(this part of the meeting is open to everybody but is mainly aimed at the project group. The aim is to discuss...

2017.01.28 / Plants

Barley Genetic Stocks database

Link to the BGS database The demand for an International Database for Barley Genes and Barley Genetic Stocks began already in the 1980s. Compiling data started in 1971 in Barley Genetics Newsletters first issue, but took an intensely new turn...

2016.04.28 / Plants

Nordic user genebank

Updated Program Summary – Workshop on a User Gene Bank in the Nordic area Presentations from the workshop: Domestication, workshop May 2016 MEB-Nordic User Gene Bank 25-05-2016 DK Anne-Charlott NGB 25 maj-Sweden 2016-05-25_Bruksgenbank_AH Borgen Usergenebank maj 2016 Bengt Nordic Gene bank workshop...

2016.01.15 / Plants

Genomic selection awarded

Theodorus Meuwissen, professor in bioinformatics in the department of animal and aquacultural sciences at NMBU, has been awarded the 2016 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science by the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA, on his pioneering...

2015.02.28 / Plants

Invitation to conference

A conference on the green cultural hertiage will be held in Eslöv, Scania in Sweden on the 19th of March. Speaker is among others Tino Hjorth Bjerregaard who will tell about how they combine the management of the green cultural...

2013.11.28 / Plants

Norwegian article about NordGen project

In the on-going project Genetic consequences of in situ and ex situ conservation is the self sterile, insect pollinated species Red clover chosen as model plant. The Norwegian Genetic Resource Center have published an article about the project and the collectings, follow...

2013.11.28 / Plants

Crop wild relative Issue 9

One article is on “Strategic work on crop wild relatives started in Sweden”, and is written by J. Weibull. From Norway Å. Asdal, J. Phillips and N. Maxted is writing on “Boost for crop wild relative conservation in Norway”, while...

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