- People are ready with their reactions to the Great EU Seed Law Thing.
- Bananas seem ready once again for their decadal extinction story.
- Those nice people saving crop wild relatives are ready with a new Twitter account to follow.
- The wheat diversity of Nepal will soon be ready for science.
- And The Boston Globe is ready with its own story about seed libraries.
Don’t believe everything that is said about the proposed EU regulation on seeds and other propagating material. The linked statement gets it completely wrong. There never was any provision making the registration of ornamentals obligatory. Obligatory registration only applies to the variety of species and genera listed in Annex I of the proposed legislation.
RE: Library. The Demeter Seed Project of UC Santa Cruz manages a web-based seed library social network.
http://casfs.ucsc.edu/farm-to-college/demeter-seed.html
Don’t think this story about a geography professor (Karl Zimmerer, PennState) wanting to map potato diversity in the Andes was ever nibbled, but I may be wrong: http://news.psu.edu/story/304191/2014/02/15/research/top-down-and-bottom-approach-needed-conserve-potato
Thanks Cédric. It was.