Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
The work at UV Irvine summarized here on the genetic effects of climate change on different kinds of plants is interesting enough. But what particularly intrigued me was the reference to a Project Baseline, “a national effort to collect and preserve seeds from contemporary plant populations.” Unfortunately I was not able to find anything more …
We’ve referred to Project Baseline here a couple of times, but always somewhat desultorily. But I think that needs to end now that the project hit the big time with a shoutout in Gizmodo. Based at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Project Baseline re-collects seeds multiple times from the same sites to see how populations …
Using remote sensing to assess the effect of trees on millet yield in complex parklands of Central Senegal. Tree cover in the landscape of up to 35% increases pearl millet yields. Genetic and genomic resources for improving proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.): a potential crop for food and nutritional security. All that’s missing is the …
Coffee botany resources. Uncovering the illegal agarwood trade. Developing the potato bean. First step: find a new name. Dog taxonomy explained. Project Baseline sets a, ahem, baseline, for studying plant diversity under climate change. Ok, random shout-out for my niece Francesca’s work on kudzu bug natural control. Because I can. And she’s fabulous. Blooming chickpeas! …