Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives ...
Fresh Nibbles: January 27, 2012
: <- click to comment- My favorite agriculture blogs. Can you say “parochial”?
- Want to track Geographical Indicators? Look no further.
- India’s agriculture magazine tackles Agro-Biodiversity For Food Security.
- And GFAR promotes a new initiative to realise the benefits of agrobiodiversity. Love is all around.
- National Plant Genetics Resources Laboratory (NPGRL) at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños checks in to rehab.
- Bioversity scientist plays with fire, for better and more diverse forest regeneration.
- Mutation breeding; Matt explains the lack of breakthroughs in a bit more detail.
- Fabulous, complex story of spiders, flies and microbes. Add ‘em together for green flypaper.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
Featured Comment: January 23, 2012
We don’t get many comments on Nibbles, but the book Diane Ragone points to is definitely worth noting.
Check out Angela Kepler & Frank Rust’s new book “The World of Bananas in Hawaii: Then and Now”.
- January 27, 2012: Paul Gepts commented on Any crops, or crop wild relatives, in the eastern Andes?
- January 27, 2012: J.Giles Waines commented on Any crops, or crop wild relatives, in the eastern Andes?
- January 27, 2012: sanaa commented on Looking for low saturated fat sunflowers
- January 25, 2012: Lee commented on Pocket pigs
- January 25, 2012: Matt commented on How long does it really take to do mutation breeding?
- January 25, 2012: Mike Jackson commented on How long does it really take to do mutation breeding?
- January 25, 2012: Jacob commented on Genebanks forgotten, again
- January 25, 2012: Jeremy commented on Contract farming is good for you — official
- January 25, 2012: Marc F. Bellemare commented on Contract farming is good for you — official
- January 25, 2012: Ruben Palacio commented on Brainfood: Ag vs biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Genomic association, Diversity and productivity in forests, Increasing diversity
- Mutation breeding: still a long shot
- How long does it really take to do mutation breeding?
- Genebanks forgotten, again
- Contract farming is good for you — official
- Looking for low saturated fat sunflowers
- EU seed law in turmoil?
- Brainfood: Ag vs biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Genomic association, Diversity and productivity in forests, Increasing diversity
- Telling it like it is for rice in Nepal
- European Botanic Gardens Congress calling for papers one last time
- Celebrating the donkey
- Egyptian genebank looted
- Mixing it up for organic tomatoes
- Germplasm documentation is a two way street
- Latest on the Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank
- 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