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David Fraser
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Comment #21 on : Sun January 25, 2009, 13:26:33
I just saw the search for the ancient chick pea on TVO, the Ontario Canada broadcaster which airs documentaries. Loved it! But it was absolutely grueling to watch. Thing is, I was at the YMCA at the time, exercising on a cross trainer, and I'll already given it up on a stationary bicycle. But I watched - gasp - to the end. Very well done to all of you! I found narration, the central people and the direction and cinematography sound and tech all excellent. Watching Dr Street examining and contemplating the varieties of wheats, and so on, encountered I remembered my early plans to be a botanist. It is my wish that I can some day manage to come and volunteer a few months of work to someone like Dr Street doing such good and necessary work. Thanks and congratulations. DGF, Toronto Canada.
Emeritus Professor Ted Wolfe
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Comment #20 on : Sun December 28, 2008, 11:53:34
I am very concerned at the reduced funding available to plant genetic resource centres in Australia and world wide. Recent examples of the work of Australian plant specialists to benefit the third world include defining cold tolerance in certain types of annual and perennial Medicago genotypes for DPRK (North Korea) and establishing the potential adaptation of tall verbine (Cullen australasicum) for rangeland situations in Eritrea. In both cases, the materials were accessed through Australian PGRCs, the accounts were published in publicly available world literature and scientific collaboration is ongoing. The PGRCs in WA and SA have recently played an important role in broadening the array of useful plant species for sustainable agriculture in Australia.
During the 1980s, I had experience of the operation of the Australian Winter Cereals Collection at tamworth and this PGRC has operated with similar unselfish devotion to the public good, in Austtralia and overseas.
Yasmine
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Cool Website
Comment #19 on : Sun November 23, 2008, 05:32:49
Hey Ken,

I'm impressed..
this website is amazing.
you're a science celebrity. haha.

Yasmine
Ken
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Answer to Sally
Comment #18 on : Sun November 16, 2008, 18:39:03
Sally, the seeds we collect are held in trust for the global community. The CGIAR genebanks hold the seeds primarily for the purpose of creating better more productive geneotypes for 3rd world farmers. In fact just about all our efforts are geared towards improving the livelihoods of 3rd world farms. If a GM variety is produce using the seeds we collect within the public secotor, as opposed to the private sector,then yes these farmers would have access to them. Further, we distribute the seeds we hold in trust under an international legal framework which has a benifit sharing clause in the event that profit is made from the private sector using the seed.
Sally
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Adelaide
Comment #17 on : Wed November 12, 2008, 22:53:08
Will 3rd world farmers get access to the GM varieties which will be created from these genes collected from them ? Or will they be patented varieties and agribusiness gain control of them and making them inaccessible to the third world. It would seem cruelly ironic if this occurred, given the 3rd world provided the material.
jess
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Comment #16 on : Wed November 12, 2008, 20:32:51
hey uncle ken i love ya so much and you rock i think that ya documentry will be very inspiring to lots of people and one day a perso as old as me might be in there 40s anbd do somthing like you have done


love ya heaps
xoxo jess ya niece
Stuart
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Many Thanx U Guys
Comment #15 on : Thu November 06, 2008, 22:54:18
These issues that have been around for long long time. I am so happy you got your story in mainstream media. Love to see a replay on commercial tv. So few brave people, so few informed people, so much to do. Thanx for your dedication and determination, great story, I was glued to the screen. I just wish I had done more when they first started talking about PVR, but I got side tracked. I do keep stirring though!
Catherine O'Connell
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Re: Seed Hunter
Comment #14 on : Wed October 29, 2008, 00:38:58
Great viewing - this was a fascinating adventure about practical science pursued by passionate people. Australian grain farmers are one group who have contributed financially to the Global Seed Vault so it is great to see Australian scientists filling it up with "golden" grains from around the world.
mhorag candy
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mrs
Comment #13 on : Tue October 28, 2008, 18:48:00
What a fascinating and unusual documentary, which took us to such out of the way places in the name of scientific research.Gritty and dedicated people.
Thank goodness for the Dr Street's of this world.Brilliant.
Cathy Reade
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now the rest of the world can enjoy it
Comment #12 on : Thu October 23, 2008, 21:34:12
ken and sally and the team, congratulations for sticking with it through to tuesday night and now the rest of the world gets to enjoy it! cheers cathy
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