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Are you an early-career researcher?

The Early-Career Researcher International Network (ECRi), is a collection of activities addressed to help you. Check them now!

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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…
Isabel
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…
Isabel
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 –…
Isabel
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,…
Isabel
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…
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