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The Next Generation

Meet Amelia and Sarah, the two newest additions to the Global Plant Council team. As a coalition of plant and crop societies from the around the globe, the Global Plant Council (GPC) aims to bring together scientists, policy makers and…

Isabel28/04/2015

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Can you crowdfund the sequencing of a plant genome?

Dr Peng Jiang, University of Georgia, USA Peng Jiang and Hui Guo at the University of Georgia think you can! They are currently raising money via a crowdfunding approach to sequence the first cactus genome – but the question is: why…

Isabel23/03/2015

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Access to crop seeds through an SMTA: what is that?

Carolina Roa, Independent Consultant at CropIP “We need a material transfer agreement” © CIAT, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA. As a plant breeder in the area of food and agriculture you look for well-characterized – or at least well-referenced –…

Isabel27/02/2015

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Yes, Africa will feed itself within the next 15 years

Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of the big “bets on the future” that Bill and Melinda Gates have made in their foundation’s latest annual letter. Helped by other breakthroughs in health,…

Isabel27/01/2015

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B.B. Singh’s quest to make cowpea the food legume of the 21st century

In 1944, the year Bir Bahadur (B.B.) Singh was born in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, Indian agriculture was in shambles. During nearly 200 years of British rule, the country’s agricultural enterprise had been turned over to commodities…

Isabel11/11/2014

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Cellulosic Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil

Brazil is a major producer of ethanol from sugarcane, and this leading global position is the fruit of scientific and technological advances resulting from a development program that was initiated in the 1970s. Driven by the oil crises of 1972-1973,…

Isabel28/10/2014

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Onwards and Upwards for the Global Plant Council

The 2014 Global Plant Council annual general meeting (AGM) was held 2-3 October and hosted by the Society of Experimental Biology in London. GPC Individuals representing 22 member organisations from 5 continents gathered at Charles Darwin House to share updates…

Isabel11/10/2014

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