Native fine flavour cacao cultivars and varieties have vast but largely untapped potential to improve local livelihoods conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… while their enhanced use will also contribute to a better conservation of cacao genetic resources overall frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

This beauty is my favorite wild🍌: Musa schizocarpa. Sequences says it's an unsuspected, major ancestor of cultivated bananas. No more doubts: our favorite fruit’s early origins are in New Guinea! 🍌🇵🇬🇮🇩! Paper here: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16… Cirad The Plant Journal Agap Institut

Un design plus vrai que nature enfin dévoilé pour la ligne 5 du tramway de Ville de Montpellier actu.fr/occitanie/mont…

Musa schizocarpa in 🇵🇬 (bunch up side down here). Fruits self-peel when ready. They give a lot of poetry to the bunch look. Bats and birds can easily feed on exposed 🍌 and then spread seeds 💩. It is one of the missing ancestors of our bananas 👉doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16…

The tiny island of Java has more population than all of Russia More than all of Japan Why?

With Delphine Luquet, Deputy Director of the Biological Systems Department @CIRAD, signing a new agreement with Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT which will allow our #scientists to work more closely with CIRAD and other french institutes on joint research as Partners

Great meeting & field visit of our banana 🍌 team ⁦Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT⁩ with our partners ⁦AGROSAVIA⁩. Thanks ⁦AGROSAVIA⁩ C.I PALMIRA for receiving us! ⁦Monica Betancourt V⁩ ⁦Jorge Eliécer Vargas Acosta⁩ ⁦Mathieu Rouard⁩ ⁦Julie Sardos⁩

New publication alert! The genome assembly of Musa beccarii & evolution of banana family genomes: extensive chromosomal rearrangements & genome expansion, by Zheng-Feng Wang Mathieu Rouard Gaëtan Droc leder Xue-Jun Ge🍌🧬1/6 #GenomeAssembly #Musaceae #Evolution doi.org/10.1093/gigasc…

All the banana results can be explored and Musa beccarii genome compared with other species and Ensete glaucum at the Banana Genome Hub, see academic.oup.com/hr/article/doi…

A practical guide for international agreements for Plant Genetic resources in PNAS CGIAR Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT PlantTreaty doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

(1/4) Peru is an important producer of cacao globally, but its cacao has been associated with high Cadmium concentrations. We carried out extensive sampling across the country and developed predictive maps. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Applications are open for participants of the H3ABioNet, Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training Genome Sequencing Bioinformatics Africa (GSBAfrica_2023) Course (running from 15 August-10 October), deadline is 29th June. Apply here: mailchi.mp/3825c222d8d9/g…

A really interesting comparative analysis visualization tool for comparisons of genome assemblies. Looking forward to trying it. Mathieu Rouard

Our policy brief with the #DSIScientificNetwork is out! Geographical origin info boosts transparency, recognition, and data sharing. 🌍 Yet, it's a limited #BenefitSharing indicator as it excludes diverse #DSI sources. #GBF #Biodiversity UN Biodiversity 🔎t.ly/JbiK4

Congratulations to Cali for being chosen as the host city for UN Biodiversity #COP16 🇨🇴 The CBD Secretariat looks forward to collaborating and going from #AgreementToAction #BiodiversityPlan #PeaceWithNature

Bridging the gap between in situ & ex situ, MGIS enriched with in situ observations, formalized in a publication shorturl.at/95eIH. Thanks to Christophe Jenny details shorturl.at/wBD0d @MusaDiversity ProMusa AgroBioDiverse MUSALAC #citizenscience #bananascience

Painting the diversity of a world's favourite fruit: A next generation catalogue of cultivated bananas biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genomic

4 UN fora are negotiating how to regulate genetic data known as digital sequence information. Sure would be nice if they coordinated a bit and made new rules clear and harmonized. Check out our new paper in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Not all 🍌 groups are monoclonal, like Pisang Awak made of at least 5 genotypes More info and a molecular catalog of 🍌 diversity in new paper doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.1… Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Cirad Dept. of Agriculture 🇵🇬 🇨🇰🇼🇸 Mathieu Rouard CathyBreton Christophe Jenny