- Did you know Darwin collected crop wild relative specimens on the Beagle?
- Saving the Running Conch. And its stories.
- Melinda Gates plugs “Hunger Season.” Including to AGRA, presumably.
- I want a fruit salad tree too.
- If you know how to implement Farmers’ Rights, the ITPGRFA would like to hear from you.
- Don’t keep taking the (vitamin A) pills.
- Hunters, pirates. You pays your money…
Follow the root and tuber conference…
Ongoing session on Roots, Tubers and Bananas at #ISTRC conf in #Abeokuta #rtb
— RootsTubersBananas Breeding (@RTB_CGIAR) September 25, 2012
…and send us the juicy bits, of course!
LATER: Here’s the live webcast.
LATER STILL: No, wait…
Over 200 scientists from 33 countries attending the 16th ISTRC International symposium on root and tuber crops,lets use #ISTRC16 for tweets!
— NRI (@NRInstitute) September 25, 2012
Nibbles: Cryo primer, Ag development paradigms smackdown, Edible book, Roots & tubers conference, Deep taxonomy, WWF ag investment report, Forecasting rape disease, Amaranth, Competition
- Science 2.0 Conservation 101 #fail.
- It’s the roads, stupid. Well, not only. Cowen cowed.
- Big book on the edible plants of Central America online.
- Big root and tuber meet gets off the ground in Nigeria with pean for cassava.
- How to link taxonomic names to everything
- Responsible investment in agriculture. Mitt Romney alerted.
- Video on diseases of oilseed rape, Rothamsted shares forecast (and it’s not good). So, is there any diversity in host response?
- Amaranth, big time.
- Correcting the capitalist tools on their misunderstanding of evolution. The tragedy is, they don’t seem to know they don’t know.
Accessing mutant barley
A post over at Plantwise reminded me that I wanted to link to an IAEA video on the mutation-breeding of the Peruvian barley variety called Centenario. Simply because it’s an interesting story, reasonably well told.
Alas, the mutants involved do not seem to feature in the FAO/IAEA Mutant Germplasm Repository Database. If they did, they would be available from the Multilateral System of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
LATER: It has been pointed out to me that Centenario does feature in a different database maintained by the FAO/IAEA Joint Division. That’s not the stuff in the International Treaty, though.
Nibble: Colombian cassava, ITPGRFA in Costa Rica, Inca foods, Chaffey, Plantation, Artificial meadows, Squash, Wheat genome, Papyrus islands
- Caribbean coast of Colombia high in cassava genetic diversity. Shakira alerted.
- Costa Rica getting to grips with ITPGRFA. Not many people hurt.
- Fox News Latino has a dietician tell us about Inca foods. In other news, Fox News has a Latino bit.
- Plant Cuttings!
- Did you celebrate the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations? And does what’s happening with açaí qualify as plantations?
- The London Olympics backlash begins. If you don’t agree with all that, here’s how to make your own meadow. Or restore one. Any crop wild relatives in all meadow-making?
- Nice pic of squash diversity.
- Very geeky presentation on how sequencing the wheat genome is going to solve all our problems. If you can follow it, you’re already convinced.
- Floating plastic islands full of papyrus plants will save Lake Naivasha. I don’t know, but I’d sure like to see it.