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Fruit and Vegetable diversity attracts global attention

Over 400 people from around the world got online at the same time to listen to international experts discuss the status and challenges surrounding conserving, exchanging and using the diversity of fruits and vegetables in 2021, the International Year of…
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Isabel13/04/2021
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Be there or be square: nuclear-to-cytoplasm relocalization of Arabidopsis PRORP2 leads to virus resistance

Commentary on Gobert et al. The authors prove the feasibility of an idea through this proof-of-concept work. As they point out, plant antiviral treatments are usually virus-specific, unfortunately for the moment a ‘broad-spectrum’ plant antiviral does not exist.
Isabel
Isabel29/03/2021
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Fruits and vegetables as key components of plant-based diet

A balanced nutritional diet rich in minerals, antioxidants, and vitamins is of vital importance for human health. Fruits and vegetables are rich sources for most of these dietary phytochemicals and micronutrients. However, today’s most common diets consist mainly of starchy…
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Isabel15/03/2021
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Best wishes for a less virus-ridden 2021

We are in the middle of a pandemic, but the experience is different for everyone. This was expressed beautifully in an original tweet by Damian Barr, later expanded by another author into a poem. “We are not all in the…
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Isabel24/12/2020
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Plant scientists need to urgently reconcile their open access needs with the benefit-sharing rights associated with plant material

Many plant scientists rely on open access to information such as DNA sequence data to do their work. They are probably also aware of obligations to respect access and benefit sharing (ABS) rights under the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and…
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Isabel04/12/2020
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The Global Plant Phenotyping Survey 2020/21

For the past six years, IPPN and EMPHASIS have carried out their bi-annual "Plant Phenotyping Surveys". It covers basic and advanced questions related to plant phenotyping for the purpose of assessing the status of global plant phenotyping and emerging fields.…
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Isabel24/11/2020
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Identified a new synthetic antimicrobial peptide aptamer targeting the causal agent of grapevine downy mildew

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is a crop of great economic and agricultural value throughout the world. In 2019, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) reported that over 7 million hectares are dedicated to the cultivation of this crop,…
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Isabel30/10/2020
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