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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. In the UK, Herefordshire’s Museum of Cider is picking up national recognition for its genebank of heritage apple trees. The BBC’s canonical autumnal apple story comes a little early this year.
    2. Speaking of iconic apples, Kazakhstan is scaling up efforts to bring back the Aport, the giant heirloom that once made Almaty famous. No word of museums, though. Or cider.
    3. Over in the Philippines, Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beefing up its rattan genebank to keep pace with demand, with forest stewards in Bukidnon planting seedlings to match. Furniture makers need genebanks as much as cider makers.
    4. Sri Lanka’s pre-Green Revolution heirloom rice varieties, purana haal, are being eyed for their resilience and disease-management potential. Good thing they’re in the national genebank.
    5. Saudi Arabia’s Jazan terraced coffee farms are turning into rural and ecotourism hotspots, proving not all agrobiodiversity needs to be in a genebank to survive. But it helps.

    Published on August 9, 2026

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