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Microbial Diversity

Microbial diversity (viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, green algae plants and animals such as plankton) is vast and largely unknown. There are an estimated 5−30 million known microbial...

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Microbes and Climate Change

The Rome-based FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is the only permanent inter-governmental forum for discussing and negotiating matters specifically relevant to biological...

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Microbial Diversity for Sustainable Agriculture

Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), a tuber crop that feeds more than 200 million people in the tropics and subtropics, is threatened by a root rot disease caused by a fungus. It turns out that a...

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Insect Pollinators

Insect pollination provided by bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, moths and beetles, etc., is one of nature’s “ecosystem services” that underpins agricultural productivity. The estimated value of...

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Potato Late Blight

Late blight, caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans, destroys an estimated 15 per cent of the annual potato crop worldwide. In developing countries alone the disease costs about US$3.25 billion...

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Forest Pollinators and Coffee

Costa Rican coffee farms located within 1 km of forests experience 20 per cent higher coffee yields thanks to forest-dwelling pollinators. Plants that were more than 300 metres from the forest relied...

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