Nibbles: Cranberry pests, Productivity, Resistance breeding, Jackfruit, Oca etc, Millets, Root crops, Semen cryo

Guess what. Cranberry pests prefer certain varieties.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. Estimating yield of food crops grown by smallholder farmers from IFPRI.
CIAT first CG centre to publish peer-reviewed video, on resistance selection. In other news, there are peer-reviewed videos?
CFTF draws our attention to Jackfruit – Forgotten Kalpavriksha, “a common trope”.
$3.4 million worth of good news for food security and diversity in the Andes. “Small Andean tuber crops” involved.
Minor millets star in new film shared by Bioversity.
Want the Philippines to be self-sufficient in rice? Eat rootcrops. IRRI unavailable for comment.
Way more than any sensible person will ever want to know about duck and goose semen.