Nibbles: Traditional knowledge, Digital herbarium, Digital Vavilov Centres, Rice genebank, Lentil breeding, Breeding for drought, Native American trout, Musa revision, Millet and sorghum promoted, Phenomics revolution

Paying attention to traditional knowledge to help with climate change … in New England!
Two million New York Botanical Gardens herbarium sheets digitized, possibly including some crop wild relatives.
Map your recipe, an entertaining way to talk about domestication and interdependence in the matter of agricultural biodiversity.
IRRI follows up genebank video with genebank podcast. No idea why.
Speaking of videos, here’s one on lentil breeding in Canada.
Which I don’t think involved drought resistance there, but it probably did elsewhere.
Tribes (not in New England — see above) diversify from trout. Alas freshwater not included in new global fish diversity hotspot map.
Musa taxonomists do their thing.
Millet takes on quinoa. Taxonomists would insist on calling it Panicum miliaceum. I think. Next in the queue is sorghum?
Phenomics in words and images.

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.