Nibbles: Climate, Money, Wine, Rice, Photosynthesis, Diversity

Our friends at the Global Crop Diversity Trust have been busy:
- “Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger.” Er … what agreement?
- Oh, and we need more money, please.
Tomorrow, US Congress briefed on soil microbiology and Vitis fermentation products, aka terroir.
IRRI Boss wants to sequence all 109,000 rice accessions in genebank. Jeremy asks: “Then what?”
Seeking C4 rice — and C3 sorghum. Good luck with that.
Women grow food basket. In India.

Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?