ABA | Abscisic acid |
AB-QTL | Advanced back cross quantitative trait locus |
AFLPs | Amplified fragment length polymorphism markers |
AI | Artificial insemination |
AnGR | Animal genetic resources |
BAC | Bacterial artificial chromosones |
BECA | Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa |
CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity |
cDNA | Complementary DNA |
CGIAR | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research |
CGRFA | Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
CPA | Cryoprotective agents |
CV | Coefficient of variation |
EG | Ethylene glycol |
EST | Expressed sequence tag |
ESU | Evolutionary significant unit |
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
FAO-WGB | FAO Working Group on Biotechnology |
FGR | Forest genetic resources |
GIFT | Genetic improvement of farmed tilapia |
He | Expected heterozygosity |
Ho | Observed heterozygosity |
ICRAF | World Agroforestry Centre |
ILRI | International Livestock Research Institute |
INIBAP | International Network for Improvement of Banana and Plantain |
IPGRI | International Plant Genetic Resources Institute |
ISAG | International Society for Animal Genetics |
ISSR | Inter-single sequence repeat |
IUCN | World Conservation Union |
IUFRO | International Union of Forest Research Organizations |
LD | Linkage disequilibrum |
mtDNA | Mitochondrial DNA |
Ne | Effective population size |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
PCR | Polymerase chain reaction |
PGRFA | Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture |
PIC | Polymorphic index content |
QTL | Quantitative trait loci |
RAPD | Random amplified polymorphic DNA |
RFLP | Restriction fragment length polymoprhism |
SAMPL | Selective amplification of microsatellite polymorphic loci |
SIGA | Italian Society of Agriculture Genetics |
SNP | Single nucleotide polymorphism |
SoW-AnGR | State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources |
SoW-PGRFA | State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
SSR | Simple sequence repeats |
UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
UNFF | United Nations Forum on Forests |
UPGMA | Unweighted pair-group method arithmetic average |