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Author: Luigi Guarino

Posted on October 4, 2012

Know your apples

You know that horrible feeling when you realize you’ve used the wrong apple variety? Well, you need never have it again, not with this handy new flowchart from Slate.

Now, if they could only do something similar for another important multi-purpose crop…

Posted on October 4, 2012October 4, 2012

Nibbles: Taxonomic language, Australian diplomacy

  • The joy of Latin.
  • Australians get medieval on FAO.
Posted on October 3, 2012October 3, 2012

COP this

It’s conference season in India, I guess. With the XI Conference of the Parties of the CBD off the ground, that makes two major global talk-fests happening in Hyderabad this week. And we’re just sitting here waiting for you to tell us what’s going down.

Posted on October 3, 2012

Nibbles: Ames genebank, G20 meet, European bison, Genomics training, Old words, Roadside Salvia

  • Yet another USDA genebank in the news. This time it’s maize.
  • G20 Agriculture vice-ministers recommend to “Support the development and promotion of a global information sharing system on plant and animal genetic resources.”
  • Bison returns to Germany.
  • Learn population genomics of crops and livestock.
  • Ebony is a pretty old word.
  • How Salvia got around.
Posted on October 2, 2012

Nibbles: Cacao breeding, Specialy crops, Taihu pigs

  • Breeding cacao in Ecuador.
  • Supporting specialty crops in the US.
  • Tasty Chinese piglets.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The Lebanese and Syrian genebanks in the news. For good reasons, for now at least.
    2. Wild American apples should be more in the news. And probably more in genebanks.
    3. Community seed banks could be good news in fragile states.
    4. Good news for India’s banana diversity. Yes, it now has a genebank!
    5. All those genebanks need breeders, like Mina Nešić.
    6. Genebanks are nice of course, but it’s even better news when the agrobiodiversity gets out and about.

    Published on May 6, 2026

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