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ILRI News on biodiversity

28 Aug 2020

ILRI Forage Genebank supports development of improved forage varieties to increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia

Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI forage genebank (photo credit:ILRI/Apollo Habtamu) The recent release of the CGIAR Genebank Platform 2019 annual report highlights that, for the third year in a row, germplasm distribution to requesters outside of the CGIAR exceeded that to...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

ILRI News

26 Jun 2020

ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research

Written by Ekta Patel and Paul Karaimu Cylindrical liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks. Nairobi-based diplomatic missions visited the ILRI campus in Nairobi on 5 December 2019, visiting the Aziz Biorepository (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

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Publications on biodiversity

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Published2020

Three-gene PCR and high-resolution melting analysis for differentiating vertebrate species mitochondrial DNA for biodiversity research and complementing forensic surveillance

Journal Article

Published2020

European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

Journal Article

Published2019

Assessing across-scale optical diversity and productivity relationships in grasslands of the Italian Alps

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ILRI News on biodiversity

ILRI Forage Genebank supports development of improved forage varieties to increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia

Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic, says ILRI/UN report

ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research

Publications on biodiversity

Dawn of the chicken revealed in Southeast Asia

The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, ‘landmark’ gene study finds

863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken

Three-gene PCR and high-resolution melting analysis for differentiating vertebrate species mitochondrial DNA for biodiversity research and complementing forensic surveillance

European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

Assessing across-scale optical diversity and productivity relationships in grasslands of the Italian Alps