Vlaams duo baant zich weg door Australische wildernis om banaan te redden standaard.be/cnt/dmf2023092…

📢EPSO wishes to encourage the development of ideas & imaginative thinking in #PlantScience & offers 2 awards🏅to young scientists to present at the EPSO General Meeting Science Day on 12 June 2024 Submission deadline is 31.1.2024. Details👉 bit.ly/3MiJhpI

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It was with great😢that we learned that E. De Langhe passed away. MGIS owes great deal to his INIBAP presidency, He actively supported H. Tézenas Du Montcel's idea for developing a network and DB on 🍌Genetic Resources. @MusaDiversity ProMusa AgroBioDiverse MUSALAC

This is how we distribute healthy 🍌 plants around the world for research and for use by farming communities. Beautiful and impactful work of Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT from our In-Trust banana collection held at KU Leuven. CGIAR

🍌Thanks to collaboration with the Belgian government and KU Leuven's Tropical Crop Improvement Lab, our team conserves >1,700 banana varieties to improve nutrition & livelihoods worldwide.🙏We're honored to welcome Minister Caroline Gennez & Mayor Mohamed Ridouani to our gene bank!

Training School on Dormant Bud Cryopreservation via ECPGR ecpgr.cgiar.org/resources/late…

Bringing Diverse Bananas to Market alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/bringi…

✨ #WorldBananaForum Conference attendees, we've arranged a super cool booth here! ✨ Stop by to chat with our scientists and discover our research on sustainable #bananas 🍌 farming! 👋 Food and Agriculture Organizationwbf I @FAO I Miguel Dita

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🌿 Celebrating #IDB24 with a brand new seed bank! Our team from Leuven 🇧🇪 met our partners at @MeiseBGarden for the grand inauguration. Our collaborative efforts in agri-crop diversity conservation foster healthier ecosystems & enhance #foodsecurity for generations to come🌱

It was a pleasure to meet last week with Heidy Rombouts to discuss the outstanding support we are receiving from Belgium. We’re grateful for their commitment to our cause. 🇧🇪 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA

🌍🍌 Exciting developments in banana research and #agriculturalinnovation! We were honored to host Sebastien Carpentier - Global Lead of our Banana Program - in our office in #Uganda.

Scientists and #cropbreeding program leaders met with Beatrice Ekesa - our Country Representative and CGIAR Convener for Uganda - and the NARO Uganda to share progress on #plantbreeding, pest management and #biotechnology.

We look forward to close future collaboration! #BananaResearch

It was an honor to co-author this state-of-the-art article with this bunch of cryo specialists. Also note the fantastic artwork of Manuela!

111: The Refugee Seeds theshowaboutscience.com/2025/03/15/111… Nice podcast for youngsters and not-so-youngsters showing the importance of conservation of crop genetic resources for next generations and how this is done.

New tech from KU Leuven's VANDERSCHUREN LAB and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT enables transgene-free genome editing in sterile bananas via CRISPR base editing. A major step for climate-resilient crops. 🧬 New Phytologist: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #PlantScience #CRISPR #BananaResearch

An Agrobacterium-mediated base editing approach generates transgene-free edited banana Van den Broeck et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BKAHCWFJ…

To Safeguard Threatened Plants, Scientists Must Master the Tricky Art of Seed Banking - smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… @smithsonianmag