We are recruiting for a Communications Officer for our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP). Closing date for applications: August 16 2013.


We are recruiting for a Communications Officer for our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP). Closing date for applications: August 16 2013.

Today’s issue focuses on two momentous events: the Integrated Breeding Platform, which held its annual meeting recently, and the orderly closure of GCP next year.
This article describes the development of Multi-parent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross populations (MAGIC) in rice and discusses potential applications for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and for rice varietal development.
What could possibly tie these four together? Find out from Part 4 of our video series on groundnuts, where Soraya Leal-Bertioli (EMPBRAPA, Brazil) says “…that hadn’t happened for the last….God knows when!”
DARE TO TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE? Wrapping things up, what has this project achieved for groundnut breeding? What’s the role of wild groundnuts in improving cutivated varieties?