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Encouraging metadata curation in the Diversity Seek initiative

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 15099 (2015) Cite this article

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The newly launched Diversity Seek initiative emphasizes the importance of state-of-the-art phenotypic and genotypic information. But to achieve its aims, it will also need to encourage the management of historical data, such as the metadata on the germplasm collections themselves.

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Figure 1: Nannorrhops ritchiana, a wild palm that grows in deserts with extremely scarce water, being propagated at the Oman Botanic Garden in 2014.

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Meyer, R. Encouraging metadata curation in the Diversity Seek initiative. Nature Plants 1, 15099 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.99

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