Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Our friend Colin Khoury was interviewed live by Radio New Zealand about genebanks the other day. Apparently, you’ll be able to hear the results on their website for only a couple of weeks, though. So we’ve downloaded the mp3 for your long-term listening pleasure. You’re welcome.
Our friend and occasional contributor Colin Khoury has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Wageningen University. As spelled out in a nice summary over at CIAT, where he was a visiting researcher, Colin’s work addressed four crucial questions dear to our hearts here at the blog: (1) What is the status of diversity in our …
The data behind the recent paper Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action, led by friend-of-the-blog Colin Khoury, is online in beta. Do check it out, and fill out the user survey. Kudos to the first person to identify the crop wild relative in the map reproduced above. Orange shows the …
What’s that you say? You don’t have time to slog through dozens of pages of text, diagrams, tables and supplementary materials on genetic erosion? Ok, then, have you got time to listen to lead author Colin Khoury talk about the paper in question for an hour or so? Of course you do. This is just …
Great to see young guns Sean Hoban and Colin Khoury being interviewed by Emily Henderson on why genetic diversity is important and therefore why — and how — we should save it. Their latest paper came out last month: Hoban et al. (2021) Global commitments to conserving genetic diversity are now necessary and feasible. Bioscience …
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