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Author: Luigi Guarino

Posted on February 2, 2009February 2, 2009

Nibbles: Cheese, Seed squared, Nutrition journal, Wild boar, Bees, Local breeds, Pest, Wild goat

  • Mozzarella madness.
  • Homegrown Evolutionist spreads his seed.
  • There’s an International Seed Swap Day of Action? And we missed it?
  • The new AJFAND is out.
  • Brits belatedly bring back boars, but bumble bee buggered.
  • Improving local livestock breeds in Zambia: VOA tells us how and why.
  • Not armyworm after all.
  • Cloning the ibex: close, but no cigar.
Posted on February 1, 2009February 2, 2009

The Tale of the Bizzarria

I totally agree with the Evil Fruit Lord that the story of the periclinal citrus chimera known as Bizzarria is both fascinating and very well told over at Home Citrus Growers. I know what I’ll be doing the next time I’m in Florence.

Posted on February 1, 2009February 1, 2009

Nibbles: Vanilla, Bhutan, Oca, Satoyama

  • Vanilla domestication 101.
  • Bhutan ponders biodiversity database. We say: Don’t forget the crops, people.
  • “Crap crops of the Incas.” One man’s on-off relationship with oca.
  • Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Water Garden. A different approach to rice.

Posted on January 30, 2009January 31, 2009

Confusion at New Scientist

The New Scientist’s blogger manages to confuse the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with the Millennium Seed Bank. I guess it was inevitable.

LATER: No, it wasn’t me that left that first, rude comment! And I’m offended that you think it might have been.

Posted on January 30, 2009

Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks, including seed banks.
    2. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree.
    3. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no doubt.
    4. And peasants, of course. No, it’s not a derogatory word, settle down.
    5. Can Green Revolution breeding approaches (and genebanks) help peasants deal with climate change?
    6. Even genebanks need a back-up plan though.
    7. New Mexico genebank helps out Danish chef.
    8. The history of the Concord grape and its foxiness. Chefs intrigued.
    9. The history of Aport and Amasya apples. No foxiness involved, as far as I know. Genebanks? Probably.
    10. The origin of caffeine. Now do foxiness.
    11. Where did collards come from anyway? No, not genebanks. Bloody historians, always re-writing history.

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