Nibbles: Svalbard double, AgAtlas upgrade, Ornamental database, Wild apples, Genetic garden, Sandalwood trade, Amazon dams, Body bacteria, ICRISAT blog, African greens, Aquatic camel, Mujer empowerment

More of a proper catch-up Nibbles later, but these should hold you for a while.

One Reply to “Nibbles: Svalbard double, AgAtlas upgrade, Ornamental database, Wild apples, Genetic garden, Sandalwood trade, Amazon dams, Body bacteria, ICRISAT blog, African greens, Aquatic camel, Mujer empowerment”

  1. Wired on Syria

    I liked this: I finally found a good piece of journalism on the ICARDA genebank `rescue’ by Lizzie Wade. It gives figures and dates and links (but she follows the error of others by confusing `samples’ with `varieties’). Her figure is that only 13% of the samples had not been backed up when the fighting started. She also mentions another ICARDA backup at CIMMYT and, in a direct quote from the DG of ICARDA: “Genebanks are not isolated treasure troves and shouldn’t be treated as such. Their power comes from the connections between them, and the worldwide network of genetic resources those connections create.” I second that.

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