Nibbles: Wheat database, Livestock maps, Indian apple genebank, UC Davis strawberries, Cheese fungi postdoc, Fruit domestication, Brassica genome, Early hunting dogs, Threatened species numbers, Bolivia conservation

A Wheat Germplasm Database To Rule Them All. No, not from CGIAR.
New livestock maps of the world. Yes, from CGIAR.
Kashmir ponders an apple genebank.
More from Game of Strawberries.
Wanna study the population genomics of cheese fungi? Course you do.
Domesticating local fruit trees good for nutrition, but need secure tenure and good planting material.
Building better broccoli, the genome way.
Early domesticated dogs helped in mammoth hunts.
Current extinction rate about 1000 times higher than background. Databases can help with that, believe it or not.
Building a national PGRFA system in Bolivia. When will they ratify the ITPGRFA, though?

One Reply to “Nibbles: Wheat database, Livestock maps, Indian apple genebank, UC Davis strawberries, Cheese fungi postdoc, Fruit domestication, Brassica genome, Early hunting dogs, Threatened species numbers, Bolivia conservation”

Wheat germplasm database: The first one I clicked on gave me: “collection date: 22nd June 1988
site notes: COLLECTED 06/22/1988 Tamanrasset, Algeria by Guarino, L.,”

It seems an excellent site.

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