Category : Feature Stories
Published : January 5, 2021 - 8:39 AM
The importance of the world’s biodiversity cannot be understated and similarly, the uses of agrobiodiversity cannot be underestimated—or ignored.
The Crop Trust’s session Food Forever: Biodiversity for Resilience at the GLF Biodiversity Conference included a panel that focused on a major component of material use in genebanks: pre-breeding.
Often the first step in moving material from genebanks to farmers’ fields, pre-breeding is a critical step in bringing resilient material into modern crop lines by isolating desirable traits in conserved varieties.
