Nibbles: Spud, Mali’s farmers, Pollan, Geneflow, Taiwan botanic garden, Pollinators squared, Vegetarianism

A makeover for the potato.
Mali’s farmers want improved landraces, not fancy-shmancy hybrids.
Biofortified does Pollan. And Pollan does Oprah…
The long-term consequences of introducing new genes to populations are not all that bad. Relevance for crop wild relatives? More research needed…
The Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center (KBCC) in Taiwan described.
Almond tree produces poison in nectar to attract insects? Go figure. In other pollinator news, they’re declining in Central Europe.
What would a world without domesticated livestock look like? ILRI DG questions vegetarians.

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@almond tree poison

bees do strange things, some even collect DDT

Letters to Nature
Nature 297, 62 – 63 (06 May 1982); doi:10.1038/297062a0

Male Eufriesia purpurata, a DDT-collecting euglossine bee in Brazil

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