Brainfood: Makapuno, Middle Eastern dogs, Date palm origins, Speedy NUS, Red apples, Apple characterization, Phenotyping double, Assisted migration & pathology, Soya diversity, Sustainable intensification, Seed research, Cucurbita history, Potato value chains, Livestock ES

Towards the Understanding of Important Coconut Endosperm Phenotypes: Is there an Epigenetic Control? Maybe. Dogs accompanied humans during the Neolithic expansion into Europe. All part of the Fertile Crescent package. Genomic Insights into Date Palm Origins. Domesticated in the Gulf region, but in a more complicated way than used to be thought. Speed breeding orphan …

Brainfood: Sorghum core diversity, Indian mango diversity, Montia potential, Assisted migration, Corchorus diversity, Soil DNA, Fire!, Coffee pest, Earthworms

Making life simpler for you, we have created an open Mendeley group for the papers we link to here. If you’re already using Mendeley, feel free to join the group (and use it to suggest papers we might miss). You can also discuss papers there, but frankly, we’d prefer you to do that here. Or …

Nibbles: Beetles, Assisted migration, Potato breeding, Chaffey, Malnutrition

Beetles good for weeds. No news on effect of Rolling Stones on pests. When to move species. Acacias, for example? A gene to prevent inbreeding depression in potato. I’m kinda down myself today. As you were, Plant Cuttings has made me feel a whole lot better. Documenting Peru’s success in fighting malnutrition. Did fortification play …