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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. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

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