Livestock: A crucial livelihood and nutrition asset for Southeast Asia by ILRI’s Purvi Mehta-Bhatt at a high-level consultation on ‘Integrating Nutrition into ASEAN Integrated Food Security Framework and its Strategic Plan of Action for Foo…
Archive for January, 2013
CRACKING CHICKPEA GENOME: 1 of 3: Rajeev Varshney in the lab at ICRISAT
A 3-photo story on scientists have successfully completed the draft genome sequence of chickpeas (Cicer arietinum), with findings published on 28 Jan 2013 in Nature Biotechnology. The study describes the genome sequence of 90 cultivated and wild chickp…
Chickpeas on the map of champions in the genome world: Challenges, rewards… and ‘Rajeevs’
Today, Nature Biotechnology published the first-ever draft genome sequence map for a chickpea variety. The map will help researchers and breeders the world over to – through molecular breeding methods – deliver to growers higher-yielding more r…
The promise and pitfalls of agricultural carbon projects
A new CCAFS working paper profiles four sustainable agricultural development projects which both mitigate GHG emissions and increase farmer livelihood security. With agriculture accounting for 10-12% of global human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissio…
Semantics for Biodiversity – International Workshop – call for papers
A 2-day workshop will be held in Montpellier, France. to define key challenges identified by the bioinformatics community, discuss solutions and identify opportunities emerging from interactions across plant science and informatics disciplines. Send pr…