- Oh gosh, it was Tree Diversity Day and nobody told us.
- Bioversity catch up with their own cacao strategy.
- And IFPRI has a new one for you to comment on.
- Caribbean agriculture gets another signed document to help it along. No word on whether agrobiodiversity featured.
- Mango conservation gets organized. But not to the extent of an RSS feed, alas.
- California owes Morocco for its olives.
- Virus-resistant cassava imminent. Haven’t they been saying this for a while now? And is anyone thinking about what will happen to the virus-susceptible varieties?
- Push-pull in the news.
- The cost of everything, and the value of nothing, nature edition.
- What’s the value of Arabidopsis, then?
African Striga: Is this actually an example of push-pull, as claimed in the article? The pull bit of the original push-pull was (I think) Napier grass, which `pulled’ the stem-borer away from the maize. The Desmodium, part of the `push’ to repel insects away from the maize, was also found to control Striga by a below-ground mechanism bearing no relation to push-pull (my usual expert on plant pathology is out weeding the garden – so I can’t ask).