Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
In a comment on a recent post on nutrition in India, Dirk Enneking, who should know, suggests that: In the Central Provinces [of India] there seems to be a close overlap between severe stunting in children and historical neurolathyrism epidemics. His reference for the latter is a 1927 publication with some pleasantly old-fashioned maps. He …
In Europe, agriculture is highly dependent on imported soybean from South America. Potential alternative sources are protein from peas (Pisum sativum L.) or more local sources like other grain legumes or rapeseed meal (Brassica napus L. subsp. oliefera [sic]). These are also good rotation crops. For farmers, protein and yield are key traits. In this …
Dirk Enneking is only marginally impressed by all this unique identifier stuff: While the use of unambiguous identifiers to track reference materials is a sensible idea which should be mandatory, the assignment of yet another set of identifiers does not solve the headache that there are a lot of accessions whose origin is obscured due …
We recently read Sweeping the Sleaze, by Oliver Reichenstein, ((Thanks to Daring Fireball.)) and agreed with much of what he said. So we got rid of the various sharing buttons on this blog, which weren’t actually being used all that much. But then, how to bring the conversations on various social sites together? Reichenstein answers …
So, just to recap, that Afghan pea accession with resistance to a couple of different strains of Peronospora viciae (which causes downy mildew): PS 998 = WBH 2126 (Plant Breeding Institution, Weibullsholm, Landskrona) = NGB 102126 = ATC 2432 (Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection, Horsham) = PI 222117 sel. Thanks to Jenny Davidson, Dirk Enneking, …