Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee Cassava is a climate resilient staple root crop across the tropics. When developing new …
FAO Seeds Toolkit
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations This Seeds Toolkit has been developed to support practitioners along …
The New Potato
Erik Stokstad, Science As climate change alters rain, growing seasons, and more, potatoes are increasingly at risk. This …
Diverse millet seeds are brought home to Taiwan after 30 years
Formosa News Millet was once a staple of Taiwanese agriculture. In the 1970s, many diverse millet varieties from …
ISBER Best Practices: Recommendations for Repositories – 5th Edition
International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) This manual presents the most effective practices for the management …
Cryopreservation Explained
Bart Panis, Bioversity International What is cryopreservation and how do we use it in plant conservation? Learn the …
Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius)
Katheryn Chen This chapter provides an overview of tepary bean, a pulse crop closely related to common …
Rice ‘Tiara’ – High in Antioxidants
Trevis D. Huggins and Anna M. McClung This chapter describes the development of ‘Tiara’, a black rice …
Rice ‘Jojutla’ – Parboiling Quality
Trevis D. Huggins and Anna M. McClung This chapter describes ‘Jojutla’, a rice cultivar that produces a …
Rice – Blast Resistance Genes
Yulin Jia, Melissa H. Jia, and Jeremy Edwards This chapter describes the research to develop genetic markers …