As part of the GenRes Bridge project, a new open-access peer-reviewed online journal was launched in 2020.
The Genetic Resources journal serves as a platform to share global knowledge and tools used within the community of practitioners of plant, animal and forest genetic resources involved in monitoring, collecting, maintaining, characterizing and using in situ or ex situ genetic resources for food and agriculture.
The journal publishes original research as well as methods, strategies, guidelines, case studies or reviews on a variety of topics including documentation, conservation, assessment, characterization and evaluation of genetic resources or biodiversity, socioeconomic practices, policy guidelines or similar.
Occasionally, Genetic Resources journal may publish special issues with a focus on selected topics of interest for the genetic resources community.
Genetic Resources journal is inspired by the no longer existing Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter and Animal Genetic Resources journal and aims to fill the gap created by their discontinuation. Its concept is informed by the results of a survey conducted among almost 300 stakeholders.
Genetic Resources is accepting submissions of manuscripts for consideration in the journal. Authors are invited to submit original research, reviews or short communications that cover the scope of the journal. For further details, see About the journal and review our Author Guidelines.
The first issue is available at
Issue 1 (Aug 2020)
Editorial Board
The current editorial board includes experts from the Plant and Animal Genetic Resources community:
Managing editor:
- Sandra Goritschnig (European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources, Italy)
Plant Genetic Resources:
- Joana Brehm (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Luigi Guarino (The Crop Trust, Germany)
- Igor Loskutov (Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, Russia)
- Lorenzo Maggioni (European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources, Italy)
- Nigel Maxted (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Jade Phillips (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Alvaro Toledo (International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO, Italy)
Animal Genetic Resources:
- Enrico Sturaro (University of Padova, Italy)
- Odd Vangen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
- Etienne Verrier (AgroParisTech, France)
If you are interested in joining the editorial board, submitting an article or any other additional information, please contact the managing editor, Sandra Goritschnig (s.goritschnig@cgiar.org).
