Seed Banks - Colin Khoury
The world's food sources are under pressure, from climate change, population growth and an over-reliance on a few key crops - rice, maize and wheat. If one of these crops were to fail we'd be in trouble, but there is an insurance policy - thousands of wild ancestor seeds, kept under lock and key, to...
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| Format: | Audio |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68375 |
| Summary: | The world's food sources are under pressure, from climate change, population growth and an over-reliance on a few key crops - rice, maize and wheat. If one of these crops were to fail we'd be in trouble, but there is an insurance policy - thousands of wild ancestor seeds, kept under lock and key, to call upon when we need to find genetic resistance to a new disease or pest. Colin Khoury is from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia and he joins us from Colorado. |
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