The FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has just published “Recent developments in biotechnologies relevant to the characterization, sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture”. The 22-page covers developments relevant to all sectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture as well as those specific to forest genetic resources and to animal, aquatic, micro-organism and invertebrate, and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. See https://www.fao.org/3/cb8956en/cb8956en.pdf or contact [email protected] for more information.