Nibbles: FAO Commission, Alpine plants conference, Young breeders, Indian sorghum, Pastoralists in the media, Neglected genomics, More quinoa, Cape Gooseberry in Europe, Database hell, Tomayto tomahto, Maple syrup, Double cropping, Cloning trees, Belated Earth Day, UK Plant Science Week

Summary of that 14th Session of the CGRFA we were all following last week.
Conferences on “Changes in alpine and arctic flora under climate change” we’ll all be following in September. If you’re from Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, the organizers need you in particular. But hurry, before it’s too late!
In other news, young scientists are into beer.
India’s Directorate of Sorghum Research gets a genebank. Relationship with NBPGR unclear.
Media portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, China and India: The Report. The Brief. The Press Release. ILRI reaction?
Neglected crops get the genomic treatment. And why that might be a good thing.
CIAT wades in on quinoa.
Call for information on Physalis peruviana cultivation in Europe.
Biodiversity databases have errors! Shock! Horror! Probe!
The nutritional difference between organic and conventional tomatoes deconstructed.
Your maple sugaring questions answered. Nice idea.
Double crop for development. I guess that’s the sustainable intensification everyone is talking so much about.
If in doubt, clone it!
Wait, wait, wait, we missed Earth Day?
And also a bunch of UK plant science conferences. (I had of course linked to the storifications here originally, but they’ve gone now of course.)