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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Main Author: Radio New Zealand
Format: Audio
Language:Inglés
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68375
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description 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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spelling CGSpace683752024-09-30T11:33:27Z Seed Banks - Colin Khoury Radio New Zealand 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. 2015-09-28 2015-09-30T14:47:41Z 2015-09-30T14:47:41Z Audio https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68375 en Open Access application/octet-stream Radio New Zealand National. 2015. Seed Banks - Colin Khoury. Podcast (aired September 28, 2015).
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