Rome, Italy
July, 2008
The
GIPB Knowledge Resource Center
is launching the Plant Breeding Electronic Journal Club,
a virtual place that allows communities to meet and critically
evaluate plant breeding and related fields' articles in the
scientific literature.
This e-Journal Club is directed to professionals and students
interested in discussing relevant plant breeding themes and
issues. Its majors objectives are to help improve skills of
understanding and debating current topics of interest to plant
breeding and to promote intellectually stimulating and
professionally rewarding exchange with colleagues from around
the world.
This e-Journal Club will use Fireboard, a forum component fully
integrated to the GIPB website, which allows implementation of
many e-Journal Club groups simultaneously. Dr. Fred Bliss kindly
agreed to serve as the convener of this first GIPB e-Journal
Club, which will discuss the article “Quantitative Genetics,
Genomics, and the Future of Plant Breeding” by Dr. Bruce Walsh.
In order to participate you just need to follow the instructions
in the front page of the GIPB
website. Registration is now opened and the e-Journal Club
will start on Wednesday, 6 August 2008.
Please, note that discussion in this first e-Journal Club will
be held in English, but proposals of conveners willing to start
e-Journal Clubs in other languages can be sent to
gipb@fao.org.
We look forward to your participation.
Elcio Guimarães, Maurício Lopes and Michela Paganini, E-Journal
Club Facilitators
Rome, Italy
August 8, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
The
GIPB Knowledge Resource Center
is launching the Plant Breeding Electronic Journal Club, a
virtual place that allows communities to meet and critically
evaluate plant breeding and related fields' articles in the
scientific literature. This e-Journal Club is directed to
professionals and students interested in discussing relevant
plant breeding themes and issues. Its major objectives are to
help improve skills of understanding and debating current topics
of interest to plant breeding and to promote intellectually
stimulating and professionally rewarding exchange with
colleagues from around the world. In order to participate you
just need to follow instructions available in the front page of
the GIPB website (http://km.fao.org/gipb).
Also, we want to remind you that GIPB has recently published the
following Calls for Proposals and Expressions of Interest:
- In collaboration with the
FAO Inter-Departmental Working Group on Bioenergy GIPB
launched a call for expanded up-to-date information on
genetic resources and breeding of selected species, together
with detailed analysis of their potential as bioenergy crops
adaptable to sustainable smallholder production systems.
Letters of Intention may be submitted to GIPB by September
1st, 2008. Visit the GIPB website (http://km.fao.org/gipb)
or click
HERE for detailed information on this call.
- In coordination with the
Global Crop Diversity Trust (The Trust) and the CGIAR
Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), GIPB launchedits first
call for proposals to support efforts to widen the genetic
and adaptability base of improved cultivars in developing
countries. The call from the Trust focuses on phenotyping,
the GCP call on genotyping and the GIPB call on
pre-breeding. Visit the GIPB website (http://km.fao.org/gipb/)
or click
HERE for detailed information on these calls.
The GIPB Knowledge Resource Center
provides a wide array of plant breeding and related information,
tools and resources, such as:
A worldwide assessment
of plant breeding capacity;
Newly published plant breeding and related literature;
Opportunities in training and capacity building;
Links to plant breeding news in the world media;
Announcements of important events related to plant
breeding;
Links to organizations and networks that have direct
connections with plant breeding;
...
Click
HERE to see these and other features.
Please, send to gipb@fao.org
your suggestions to help us improve our services.
Best wishes,
The GIPB team |
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