- Sensory sacrifices when we mass-produce mass produce. You need consumer-assisted selection.
- The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world. Two Middle-Eastern sub-populations of one sub-species contributed to domestication, at different times, and the result spread first with agriculture and then aboard ships. But we haven’t changed them in the same way we’ve changed dogs etc. You don’t say.
- U.S. ratification of Plant Treaty: benefit sharing ambiguity for plant genomics researchers does not change. But what about genomics data?
- Wading Into the Gene Pool: Progress and Constraints Using Wild Species. Introduction to the Special Section on CWR.
- Plant ecological solutions to global food security. Introduction to the Special Feature on Ecological Solutions to Global Food Security. The intersection with the above is probably here.
- A multiplex PCR for rapid identification of Brassica species in the triangle of U. Now there’s no excuse.
- Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data. I don’t see any reason why the same thinking couldn’t be applied to crop diversity.
- Linguistic diversity of natural UNESCO world heritage sites: bridging the gap between nature and culture. 80% of Natural WHSs intersect at least one indigenous language.
- Overcoming barriers to active interventions for genetic diversity. Embrace the hybrid by focusing on process, not form.
- Utilization and farmers’ knowledge on pigeonpea diversity in Benin, West Africa. For some reason, farmers don’t like coloured seeds.
U.S. ratification of the Plant Treaty. The premise in this paper is wrong:”…the benefit sharing obligations under the Treaty are intended to be explicitly tied to access and use of plant genetic materials belonging to the crops and forages listed in the Treaty’s Annex 1.” Not so for the Art 15 samples in the CG genebanks – thousands more species.
The paper also references `Civil Society’ inputs to GB6: something like DivSeek allowing biopiracy. The Plant Treaty is a major culprit here, allowing third parties to put in samples outside the jurisdiction of the country of origin (over 100,000 from Mexico when Mexico had not accepted the Treaty). This `elephant in the room’ seems to have gone unnoticed by the Civil Society malcontents, who are certainly ignoring the interests of any farmers in Mexico.