My good friend Cesar Azurdia has alerted me to the publication of the book Guatemala y su Biodiversidad. Chapter 9 focuses on agricultural biodiversity. There’s a lot of great stuff on homegardens, crop wild relatives, effects of climate change etc., all subjects very dear to our heart here.
Plant breeding resources brought together
The Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB) has just released a new version of its Knowledge Resource Center for plant breeders:
One of the main objectives of GIPB is the establishment of a Knowledge Resource Center, including a shared information portal covering key areas such as training needs and opportunities, access to conventional and molecular breeding technologies and genetic resources, general information on breeding programmes and useful links.
Check it out.
Further dispatches from germplasm database hell
In which our hero Jeremy tries to trace germplasm collected by Vavilov, and is disappointed.
Historic botanic garden criminally overlooked
Well it didn’t take long for someone to point out to me that I’d left out an important site from my list of agrobiodiversity attractions around Montpellier. That’s of course the beautiful and historic botanic garden, one of the oldest in France. I’m happy to rectify the omission.
Nibbles: Turkey, Core, Cattle, Aquaculture
- “Third biggest genebank in the world” to be built in Turkey.
- Hari honoured!
- Kudos for Cundiff!
- Aquaculture. What is it good for?
- “The oldest domesticated animal known…”