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Rice genetics placed in global data pool to help develop sustainable crops – UN agency

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UN News Centre

Publication Date
2015-10-08

7 October 2015 – The genome sequences of thousands of rice varieties have been placed with a United Nations-backed treaty on plant genetics by the world’s leading rice research institute to help boost plans to set up a global data exchange for crop genetic resources, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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