Or at least I am. It’s going to take me a day or two to get back fully into the blogging swing of things, but, until then, check out the extra-long list of nibbles to the right, below the photo.
Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone!
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
Fresh Nibbles: February 9, 2012
: <- click to comment- Yale University magazine drinks the fast-track breeding KoolAid panacea.
- Compare and contrast. Repeat. Endlessly.
- Grafting tomatoes is hot for lots of reasons; but how does it protect against leaf-borne diseases? And not just tomatoes, actually.
- Getting the lowdown on that “food sovereignty” farrago.
- And today’s DNA sequencing will solve world hunger and cure bunions story.
- Genomics also good for “health, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and biodiversity” in Philippines. Have we forgotten anything?
- Well yeah, you forgot your handy molecular toolkit.
- Meanwhile, back in the real world, the choice is between forests and yaks.
- More hard choices: evotourism destinations. But check it out, there be agricultural biodiversity too!
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
Featured Comment:
Clare Trivedi reassures Dave Wood on Kew’s ABS policy:
I know it may be a little buried in the Kew website but we have a very well-established Policy on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing which covers all aspects of acquisition, use and supply of plant material.
And to avoid you digging around for it, Dave, here it is.
- February 9, 2012: SLNRao commented on Debating the future of grasspea breeding
- February 8, 2012: Clare Trivedi commented on Nibbles: Mike Jackson blog, Philippines genebank fire, Ancient garden, USA maps, Horse domestication, Gnats, Livestock training, Chocolate, Epigenetics, Indian nutritional security, Kew fund, GM bananas, Reconciling databases
- February 7, 2012: Ola Westengen commented on Cotton doyen passes away
- February 7, 2012: Jacob commented on Nibbles: Musa taxonomy kerfuffle, Vouchers, Foodies, Aroid roundup, MAS is ok, Sierra Leone conservation
- February 7, 2012: David commented on Cotton doyen passes away
- February 6, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Nibbles: Mike Jackson blog, Philippines genebank fire, Ancient garden, USA maps, Horse domestication, Gnats, Livestock training, Chocolate, Epigenetics, Indian nutritional security, Kew fund, GM bananas, Reconciling databases
- February 6, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Consolidation in the seed industry
- February 6, 2012: Dirk Enneking commented on Consolidation in the seed industry
- February 4, 2012: Mark Sieffert commented on How they make cheese
- February 3, 2012: Steve commented on Nibbles: Neolithic foods, Diplomacy, San, Bango, Urban Navy beas, Veg Celebs, Seed swaps
- Online Biodiversity Heritage Library has agrobiodiversity too
- Next-generation sequencing and genebanks: a teaser
- Cotton doyen passes away
- Kermit sings the malnutrition blues
- Consolidation in the seed industry
- Brainfood: Falcons, Wild soybean squared, Horse domestication
- How they make cheese
- Mapping America
- Another photograph of Erna Bennett surfaces
- How to react to emergencies
- Germplasm documentation is a two way street
- How grafting a plum tree led to an obsession
- Using data to inform nutrition security policy
- The quinoa story: it’s complicated
- Forests at your service: lessons from Kibale
- Breadfruit roundup
- Not all Andean tubers are potatoes
- Yemen spatial data online, sort of
- CGIAR research on Cassava Brown Streak Disease
- Food on a pedestal
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Me too! And Robert and the others will doubtless be along any day now. (Don’t you just marvel at the coordination we bring to this job?)