Nibbles: Biotech to the rescue, Chinese horses, Soybean carotenoids, CropMobs, Nutrition, Coffee pests, Varroa, Berries, NUS

Genejockeys say they have sorted that global food supply problem everybody’s been so antsy about lately. No, wait, maybe it’s this.
China has 23 indigenous horse breeds. At least.
Latest crop to get the orange treatment is soybean.
Diverse ways of doing agriculture: Could CropMobs go global?
Choose foods, not nutrients. Heck, yes.
Globally warmed beetles threatening your coffee crops? Bring on biodiversity!
Brit breeds bees for better grooming.
How to get the most out of your wild blueberries. Maybe we should tell Medvedev?
Emerging Crops is a new NUS project, and it has a website.

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?