Biodiversity of Crop Plants
Conservation, evaluation and management of genetic resources of both cereals and vegetable crops
- Ensuring the long-term conservation of plant genetic resources.
- Regenerating all the maize varieties.
- Continuing the regeneration and long-term conservation of other cereals and vegetable crops.
- Creating a database of all the phytogenetic resources of cereals and vegetable crops.
- Implementing the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity and the national plan of action for the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agrictulture.
Selected publications
Kleijer G, Badoux S, Corbaz R
Les variétés locales suisses: une grande richesse!
Revue suisse d'agriculture. 22, (3), 1990, 157-164