Nibbles: Cattle nutrition, Maize, Freshwater biota, Modeling maize, Rice, Book, Veg, Urban ag

by Luigi Guarino on September 3, 2010

Climate change ain’t going to be good for cattle.
But will be fabulous for breeders of drought-resistant maize.
A fifth of Africa’s freshwater plants and animals threatened. How many of these are important to local people’s nutrition and health? A lot, I bet.
Just a couple guys, modeling the spread of maize genetic diversity in the Americas.
Uganda turns to wild relatives for new rice varieties.
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century recognizes importance of agrobiodiversity. Good to know.
New Agriculturalist revisits veg-garden-in-a-sack.
FAO policy brief on urban agriculture.

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nian April 18, 2011 at 6:38 am: tanks very god

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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?

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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?

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