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Opportunities for underutilized breeds and varieties in agriculture and food transition - Many ‘old’ varieties and breeds of crops and livestock have become endangered as a result of intensification, specialization and... -
Not all inbreeding is depressing - Inbreeding may decrease the performance of cows, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. Researchers of Wageningen University & Research... -
How about the risk status of the Dutch farm animal breeds? - The farm animal breed list presents the status of all Dutch breeds. About 90% of the 140 listed breeds are at risk, the risk classification is based... -
Promoting the conservation and use of livestock diversity in Europe - Implementation of a communication strategy, further development and professionalization of the European Gene Bank Network (EUGENA), and development of... -
Considerable expansion of the animal gene bank collection in 2018 - The Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands (CGN), of Wageningen UR conserves semen of Dutch farm animal breeds in the gene bank to secure as... -
International agreement needed for continued access to “Digital Sequence Information” - With the ‘genomic revolution’, organisms, genetic material or genes can be sequenced relatively cheaply, and data can be exchanged rapidly... -
Biodiversity for food and agriculture is declining - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched the first State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and... -
A test to include unregistered rare Dutch cattle in the herd book - Local Dutch cattle breeds have small population sizes and the number of breeding animals registered in herd books is limited. In December 2018 the... -
Ethical aspects of gene banks for livestock – stakeholder perspectives - On Wednesday evening the 17th of October 2018, participants of the IMAGE interactive post-graduate course on genomic diversity of animals discussed... -
Everything you need to know about genetic diversity in one course - An enthusiastic group of 28 participants from Europe, Africa and America followed the Interactive post-graduate course on characterization, management...