Lost African fruits found.
Lies, damn lies
Nutritional statistics in trouble.
Berry Go Round goes around
If you’ve wandered over from Seeds Aside and the first Berry Go Round carnival, you’re most welcome here at the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. Come back again soon, and often, for all your agrobiodiversity needs. If you’re a regular here, don’t forget to head on over to Seeds Aside for an entertaining round-up of botanical lore ranging from mosses to palms to, ahem, maize.
Neolithic transitions
Dating agricultural spread in Europe from earliest appearance of cereals at archaeological sites.
Strange fruit
I must admit that what I liked best about this recent post over at BoingBoing was not so much the idea of concentrating conservation efforts on animals that “have few close relatives on the tree of life and are often extremely unusual in the way they look, live and behave, as well as in their genetic make-up” — although that IS pretty cool — so much as the photo of the weird salamander. And, indeed, that there is an International Cooperation Network for Giant Salamander Conservation. But then I got to thinking about which species one would choose if one was going to do something similar for crops. What crops have few relatives and are just plain strange, for whatever reason? The artichoke? The caper? Buckwheat? The coconut? Send in your vote…