Nibbles: European plant conservation, Homegardens, Anthropogenic vegetation, Soil Association, Wheat and heat, Coconut meet, Pavlovsk beatdown, Plant species numbers, Vegetation and climate change, Genebank software

How is Europe doing at saving its threatened plants? Paper and website available. How many crop wild relatives are threatened in Europe? I think it should be possible to work it out…
Bioversity colleagues summarize their work on homegardens.
Introduced plants can be useful too!
Soil Association continues to quibble about need to double food supply.
ICARDA looks for heat-beating wheat.
“Coconut Biodiversity for Prosperity” meet coming up soon in Kerala. Local press excited.
Jeremy sets the world straight on Pavlovsk.
Kew et al. set the world straight on how many plants there are in the world. Jury still out on the number of crop wild relatives.
Vulnerability of vegetation to climate change varies around the world. Well there’s a thing now. Nice maps.
If you’re running a livestock cryobank I’ve got the software for you.