Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
Fresh Nibbles: May 18, 2012
: <- click to comment- Ancient olives not that old after all. But still attractive.
- Giving up tobacco – in favor of purple sweet potatoes?
- Kew is now as much about cooking as growing. Visit the 18th century kitchens.
- Linking small farmers to markets, video from a conference.
- The International Treaty’s SMTA made easy. Well, kinda. It would have been even easier if they had linked to the site. Good thing there’s us, eh?
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
Featured Comment:
Mark Nesbitt knows who the Director of Agriculture is Tanzania was in 1934:
The sorghum collection – all 956 accessions – was acquired by J.D. Snowden while working on his 1936 book (still in print!) “Cultivated Races of Sorghum”. It’s a perfect example of a collection that 20 years ago would have seemed useless (old seeds, mostly dead) but thanks to new techniques (DNA analysis) suddenly looks very interesting as a record of landrace distribution before the Green Revolution.
So, any gene jockeys out there interested in extracting DNA from old seeds? Just for information, there are 1058 sorghum accessions from Tanzania in Genesys. How much can it cost to run a bunch of microsatellites on 2,000 samples?
-
Don't Miss a Thing
Subscribe to agro.biodiver.se via RSS or Email:
- May 19, 2012: Tom commented on Where do bananas grow anyway?
- May 18, 2012: Mark Nesbitt commented on Kew doesn’t store seed only at the Millennium Seed Bank
- May 17, 2012: Samuel commented on Prospects for fish (and other) farming
- May 17, 2012: Stephen Thomas commented on Glass gem corn goes viral
- May 14, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Brainfood: Bee diversity, Fodder innovation, African agrobiodiversity, Quinoa economy, Fragmentation and diversity, Rice in Madagascar, Rice in Thailand
- May 12, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Nibbles: Mapping Life, PES, Quinoa, Forest restoration
- May 11, 2012: Peterson Wambugu commented on Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter: dead but maybe not yet buried
- May 11, 2012: Jeremy Cherfas commented on Nibbles: Warm weather, Invasives, Agrobacteria, Extension, Seed sales
- May 11, 2012: Dirk Enneking commented on Nibbles: Warm weather, Invasives, Agrobacteria, Extension, Seed sales
- May 11, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Organic vs Industrial ag: lotta continua
- Kew doesn’t store seed only at the Millennium Seed Bank
- D Landreth not so important to seed diversity
- Finding your way in the agricultural spatial data jungle
- Mapping nutrition research
- Brainfood: Bee diversity, Fodder innovation, African agrobiodiversity, Quinoa economy, Fragmentation and diversity, Rice in Madagascar, Rice in Thailand
- Glass gem corn goes viral
- Mapping some life
- Arnold Arboretum goes mobile
- Feral or relict: you decide
- Highest altitude sheep
- How grafting a plum tree led to an obsession
- Not all Andean tubers are potatoes
- Using data to inform nutrition security policy
- CGIAR research on Cassava Brown Streak Disease
- What causes famines?
- How endangered are Shropshire sheep?
- FAO says Save and Grow
- Yoghurt seeds and other unlikely alliances
- Where will the protein come from?
- Katherine’s monkey’s peanut
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
contact details out of date for you erna. dearly hoping you are well. watched your talk on you tube. so sad that I have missed out on all that erudition, insight and humour. a lifetime has passed now. You looked really well. extraordinary to think that it is half a century since I set eyes on you. I’m still in belfast. It would be lovely to hear from you. wishing you all the very best.
Hello Erna. I am a friend of Michael Bennett. It would be so
nice if u could find it in your heart to contact him.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Marion Lyons.
Michael, I came to the you tube items about Erna you mention late also but have very much enjoyed listening to them. I have managed to find a few other interesting items on Erna that you might be interested in. So if you pass this way again please let me know and we can link up. Although I am currently based in Rome I pass through Belfast often, on my way home to Cookstown.
u may well not see this as it seems u havent seen above or care not to comment. however this is in nature of an emergency of sorts + I have no other contact details. nuala is currently stranded at rome airport + has been there for some days. as she is now wheelchair bound, this is a difficult situation for her. she wd very much apprec iate a call if only for advice. her mobile number is (u’ll need to change code obviously) 0353876559501
Dear Erna Bennett,
My name is Nicoletta Fagiolo and I am an Italian filmmaker based in Paris, France. I am currently writing a film on the life of Nikolai Vavilov and today’s Slow Food movement. I am reading Scientists, Plants and Politics by Robin Pistorius and admire your vision at the FAO conferences at the time!
I believe your approach, if I may say, was more Vavilovian than what then won the day due to major funding priorities. I however think the genecological approach is now gaining some ground again.
I wanted to discuss some of these issues with you and would like to interview you for the film and am looking for your contacts. My e mail is nicolettafagiolo@yahoo.co.uk. telephone number 0033-(0)627350717 or fixed phone line 0033-0148870475.
I thank you for your attention and look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely, Nicoletta Fagiolo
Dear Erna
I have just been watching a TV programme about women pilots delivering planes during the war, which made me think of you. I did a search on your name and quite a lot came up and from the content I could tell it was the Erna Bennett I knew in London and Thorpe Arch in the library. A lot has happened since and I can tell from the notes on you how important your life has been in research. I would love to hear from you if you can, if this is not possible I have often thought of you in the past. I am retired and living in Harrogate. Mary Dalton
{ 1 trackback }