Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
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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There was an intriguing tweet a few days ago from the redoubtable Sean Hoban about a presentation his lab is making at the Center for Plant Conservation meeting this week. The @seanmhoban lab will present this poster at @CPCplants conference this week. Work by @Kaylee_rosen @koticneutralDNA @BailieMunoz building on vital work by @BethanyZumwalde @ScientistESS pic.twitter.com/SMfX3Qe4oM …
Crop-Climate Suitability Mapping. Yes, another one. I feel a proper post coming on. Tweet from Sean Hoban on ex situ sampling strategies. I feel a proper post coming on. Proper blog post explains a really complicated rice domestication paper in about a page. Proper podcast from Jeremy on, among other things, why coffee leaf rust …
Just a reminder to everyone that the CBD is soliciting comments on the proposed Post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Needless to say, Sean Hoban and colleagues have been thinking this through and are proposing genetic diversity targets and indicators, and for all species, not just crops and their wild relatives: the number of populations with effective …
Native Americans are coping with a coronavirus-caused food shortage by seed saving. Among other things. On the International Day of Peasant’s Struggle, even. IWYP science brief on using wheat wild relatives in breeding. Really nice Meise Botanic Garden publication on botanical nomenclature. And to complement the above: Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era. More old apples …