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Brainfood: AnGR in the US, Cloning, Reindeer diversity, Lactose persistence evolution, Fish menus, Vanilla agroforestry, Pollinators in India & the US, Dogs & people

Development and utilization of the United States gene bank collection. Of animals, that is: 1.15 million samples from 59,640 animals, representing 44 species of livestock, aquatic and insect genetic resources, 191 breeds and 369 subpopulations. Healthy cloned offspring derived from freeze-dried somatic cells. Another way to conserve in genebanks like the above, at least for …

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Brainfood: Food groups, Bumblebees, Wild lettuce, Bambara, Miscanthus, Wild macadamia, Sperm cryo, Fungi, Feed adoption, Bere evaluation, Lactose persistence

Culinary Cultural Conservation and Cultural Keystone Food Groups: Concepts in Ethnobotany. Immigrants stick with viandas. Safeguarding the genetic integrity of native pollinators requires stronger regulations on commercial lines. About half of bumblebee specimens in SW Spain were F1 hybrids or BC1. Lactuca dregeana DC. (Asteraceae: Chicorieae) – A South African crop relative under threat from …

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Nibbles: Mashua info, Veggies programme, Rice research, Genomes!, Indian malnutrition, Forest map, British agrobiodiversity hero, GMO “debate”, Lactose tolerance, Beer

New Year Resolution No. 1: Take the mashua survey. New Year Resolution No. 2: Give the Food Programme a break, it can be not bad. As in the case of the recent episode featuring Irish Seed Savers and the only uniquely British veg. New Year Resolution No. 3: Learn to appreciate hour-plus talks by CG …

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Nibbles: CBD COP, Biofortification, Foodie potatoes, Dates date, Reintroductions, Quercus, Nomenclature, Maize, P, Agroforestry, Weeds, VIR, Lactose intolerance, Yersinia

Bioversity DG “jubilant” at Nagoya Protocol. A video plug for the biofortification conference. Native potatoes on foodie agenda. A date palm festival. In the US. The success of species introductions. Italian acorn cakes deconstructed. I’m told the people able to recognize these sweet acorns are few and old. Calling times on biological names. Whoa! Saving …

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Featured: Lactose

Ola, on The lactose reflux problem: Introgression from Neanderthals as a source of adaptive variation is a fascinating hypothesis; I like the idea that Homo sapiens have benefited from alleles from wild relatives. Recent adaptation and all the signs of positive selection in human population following the shift to agriculture based diets expose the fallacy …

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