Nibbles: UK collections, Rice domestication, Cattle domestication, Truffles, Yam chromosomes, Shiitake, Videos galore, Coffee and climate change

Search the UK’s living plant collections for errant edibles and their wild relatives.
Independent origins for aromatic rice varieties?
I’ll see your rice varieties, and raise you independent cattle domestication in China.
The scent of a truffle, love it or leave it.
Improving the yam, with flow cytometry and satellite markers to discover how many chromosome sets they have.
Going back to nature for the best in cultivated shiitake. With video goodness.
The @gricultural Revolution, from CTA. Too cute, too loud, too long. With even more video goodness.
“Local Farmer Grows Beans from the Basque Region.” I guess he’s not local to the Basque region, then, or it wouldn’t be remarkable. Yet more video goodness. Aside: I’ve grown alubias de Tolosa and they are wonderful, but I never was elected a member of the confraternity.
You want even more video goodness? Here’s some on resilience in coffee farming.

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.