In this 2021-03-03 edition of the GBIF Backbone we have adressed various issues both in content but also in development work that lead to a better overall taxonomy. Further details can be seen in the closed Github project board. Here we want to point out some major achievements:
We have advanced the Backbone Building so that we can block certain groups or subtree of a source by configuration only. This new feature has been used to block the prokaryotic kingdoms Bacteria and Archaea as well as the Fabaceae plant family from Catalogue of Life.
Instead we decided to follow Kews World Checklist of Vascular Plants for Fabaceae, which we made available in Darwin Core to index into GBIF.