Nibbles: Indian millets, Coconut breeding, Bhutan seed systems, Bangladesh gardens, Innovea coffee breeding network, Israel and NZ genebanks

How to collect forestry seeds.
Whole bunch of new maize races collected in Colombia.
The Türkiye national genebank in the news. Lots of collecting there. Though maybe not as much as in this genebank in China.
But small communities need genebanks too. Here’s an example from Ghana. And another from India. And a final one from the Solomon Islands.
Need to use the stuff in genebanks though. Here’s how they do it in the UK. And in Bangladesh. And in Europe with the INCREASE project, which has just won a prize for citizen science. And in Taiwan. Sort of citizen science too.
Collecting apples in the UK. Funny, the canonical lost-British-apple story appears on the BBC in the autumn usually. Kinda citizen science.
Or we could do in situ conservation, as in this South African example… Just kidding, we all know it’s not either/or. Right? Probably a good idea to collect seeds is what I’m saying. Could even do it through citizen science.

Published on July 3, 2024