- Performance of 50 Lebanese barley landraces (Hordeum vulgare L. subsp. vulgare) in two locations under rainfed conditions. 47 individual plants were as good or better than the 2 checks in terms of grain yield per plant.
- Phylogenetic analysis of Aceh cattle breed of Indonesia through mitochondrial D-Loop region. A specific haplotype, mainly indicus but with some taurus.
- Genetic diversity assessment of in situ and ex situ Texas wild rice (Zizania texana) populations, an endangered plant. Diversity is dynamic in situ, and some of it is missing ex situ.
- Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, Parentage Analysis, and Construction of Core Collections in the French Apple Germplasm Based on SSR Markers. 2163 accessions divide into Old Dessert, Old Cider, and Modern Cultivar subgroups.
- Community Food Security: Resilience and Vulnerability in Vanuatu. High population pressure associated with shorter fallows but higher yields, not associated with purchasing of imported foodstuffs. Not clear what high crop diversity associated with.
- Using genomic repeats for phylogenomics: a case study in wild tomatoes (Solanum section Lycopersicon: Solanaceae). Repetition can be useful.
- The cocoa bean fermentation process: from ecosystem analysis to starter culture development. It takes a microbial community.
- Wild harvest: distribution and diversity of wild food plants in rice ecosystems of Northeast Thailand. There’s much more to rice than rice.
- Free seeds and food sovereignty: anthropology and grassroots agrobiodiversity conservation strategies in the US South. Activist anthropology for better food systems.
- Comparative Study of Hulled (Einkorn, Emmer, and Spelt) and Naked Wheats (Durum and Bread Wheat): Agronomic Performance and Quality Traits. Will need to fiddle with classic baking techniques.
Free seeds and food sovereignty: This is well worth reading. However, it says: “but local knowledge and crop biodiversity increasingly disappear as farmers take on debt or enter the market and abandon traditional subsistence”. This is certainly true of the target of the paper – the US South. But it ignores a major cause of loss of crop genetic resources worldwide – the undercutting of local markets and subsistence farmers in many developing countries by the dumping of crop exports from North America (including PL 480 food aid) and – increasingly – South America. This seems to be the `elephant in the room’ that everybody ignores. Just what is the impact of the vast flow of soybean westwards from the Americas to East Asia on local producers in the region of diversity of soybean? Just what does the promotion of Canadian noodle wheat exports have on Asian wheat farmers? And lots more besides. I can’t find any economic/genetic resources account of the damage already done and probable in the future.