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EDITORIAL
In this issue - October 2020 Serge Savary 1 Accepted: 21 September 2020 / Published online: 28 September 2020 # International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Plant breeding is vital to ensuring food security, locally to globally. No progress in plant breeding in producing varieties that are adapted locally would be possible without genetic resources. Public gene banks have been created to harbour, conserve, maintain, and distribute genes all over the world. Gene banks have the heavy task of ensuring that genetic diversity is preserved for the future, where climates will have changed, where nutritional needs will have evolved, and where agrosystems will have been transformed. Gene banks are also the repository of history, culture, and traditions, in the form of seeds and DNA. The welfare of public gene banks that can share genetic resources with anyone in need of plant material for breeding purposes is essential. In humanity’s capability to adapt to the challenges of population growth, climate change, and nutritional needs, the role of pubic gene banks is paramount. The October Issue of Food Security starts with a Special Section on Genebanks, co-edited by Conny Almekinders (Editorial Board of Food Security and WUR The Netherlands), Melinda Smale (Michigan State University, USA) and Nelissa Jamora (Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn, Germany). This Special Section starts with an Introductory article by Melinda Smale and Nelissa Jamora, titled Valuing genebanks. A series of articles on the themes follows: & & &
an economic analysis of the value of gene banks (Douglas Gollin); an assessment of the impact of IRRI’s gene bank on rice breeding in Eastern India (Donald Villanueva et al.); a study on gene flows and genetic diversity in relation with CIMMYT’s gene bank (Vanessa Ocampo-Giraldo et al.);
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* Serge Savary [email protected] 1
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRAE, Auzeville, France
an example of CIP’s potato gene bank on the development of new potato varieties in sub-Saharan Africa (Vivian Bernal-Galeano et al.); an assessment of CIAT’s bean gene bank in the development of improved bean varieties in Rwanda (Stefania Sellitti); a study of the contribution of the World Agroforestry gene bank to agro-forest systems in Kenya (Kavengi Kitonga et al.); a study of the role played by gene banks in controlling taro leaf blight in the Pacific through host plant resistance (Sefra Alexandra); an illustration of the role of genetic diversity in expanding the size of the genepool of wheat (Hafid Aberkane et al.); and an assessment of the meanings of gene banks in a European country (Czechoslovakia; Nik Tyack and Milan Ščasný).
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Dirk Godenau, Jose Juan Caceres-Hernandez, and Jose Ignacio Gonzalez-Gomez: A consumption-oriented approach to measuring regional food self-sufficiency Ifeoma Q. Anugwa, Agwu E. Agwu, and Suresh Babu: Gender-Specific Livelihood Strategies for
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