@AgroBioDiverse Luigi, don't get shocked. ICARDA facility has been looted. Cars are with FSA now. Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzE49m1Tbzk&feature=youtu.be #ICARDA- @AgroBioDiverse no Luigi, hope some local staff is there to operate the genebank, everyone else is relocated to Lebanon or Jordan.
@joshkawessels Yes thanks, I was aware of that, I was wondering if the coldroom is still running.- @AgroBioDiverse Don't know, but wasn't almost everything already copied and taken to Svalbard anyway? Long live the Doomsday Vault....
100,000th seed sample sent to Svalbard « ICARDA NewsJan 31, 2011 ... ICARDA has just dispatched its fourth shipment of germplasm to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. With this shi...- @joshkawessels Not just Svalbard, but yes, everything is safety duplicated in 2 places.
- Robert Fisk: If Alawites are turning against Assad then ... - RootsActionJul 25, 2012 ... Mercifully, Icarda's gene bank is safe and has been duplicated outside Syria. The Syrian government moved a milita...
- FSA takes over ICARDA buildingsFree Syrian Army fighters have, in their words on the video below, "liberated" ICARDA. Our thoughts are with the international staff, sti...
So just to be absolutely clear: the genebank accessions and research data are safe. Here’s a long piece from Nature Middle East Conflict in Syria forces international research centre to move staff that sets out the situation as it was in September. I am assured by people on the ground that as far as ICARDA is concerned nothing has changed since then.
Conflict in Syria forces international research centre to move staff : Nature Middle Eastdoi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2012.133; Published online 16 September 2012 News Despite having to send all of its expatriate researchers out of...
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