April 1, 2011April 1, 2011 by Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Cardamom, FIGS, Descriptors, Haiti

Cardamom scrutinised.
A Lifeboat to the Gene Pool. Our friend Dr Dag “provides some of the first experimental evidence to support the FIGS concept”. With slides.
Descriptor lists are important, says Bioversity today. No joke.
An investigation, quite possibly partisan, but that’s the point, into emergency seed aid to Haiti after the earthquake.

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1. 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.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. 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.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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