Nibbles: Improving heirlooms, CRISPR, Greening, International Space Station

Potato wild relatives: Too much of a good thing? What do you call it when you suddenly notice things...
Organic agriculture and development A long article on International Press Service’s wire gives a...
Promotion of new crops and its effects Following on from yesterday’s post, which looked at the UNEP-WCMC...

Festivals, rituals and seed-saving go hand in hand, as this photo essay on Koraput’s Adivasis shows for World Indigenous Peoples Day.
Speaking of unlikely alliances, Israeli and Palestinian researchers have teamed up on wheat that can take the heat in a warming, drying Middle East.
Not to be outdone in the resilience stakes, the cowpea shrugs off both drought and flooding, according to FAO.
If all this talk of resilient crops has you inspired, here’s a how-to on starting your own community seed bank, in South Africa or anywhere else for that matter.
And for when preservation is really about nostalgia: Romania’s Buzau genebank is keeping childhood mint flavours alive, chocolate, clove and vanilla notes included.