June 10, 2015 by Jeremy Cherfas

Nibbles: Old basil, Old newsletters, New old vegetables, New network, New phylogenies, Old story

World’s oldest basil pollen “may be ‘medicine’”.
Bioversity digitises the past and contributes to the future: The rise of Africa’s super vegetables.
New network for sustainable intensification.
Amaze your friends with you up-to-date knoweldge of the current state of grass genomics.
Biochar is once again “the next big thing”.

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1. Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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