Nibbles: Date palm protection, IPCC report, Israel flora, Horsham genebank, Jubrassic Park, Broomcorn millet origins, Synthetic yeast chromosome

  • UAE date palms to get FAO recognition. So they’ll be ok then. Phew!
  • Unlike African agriculture, according to the IPCC.
  • Or Israel’s wild plants. Though what they intend to do about that is hidden behind a paywall. Can anyone tell me the answer?
  • The Australians know what to do. Build a new genebank
  • …and grown ginarmous brassicas.
  • Pat Heslop-Harrison for his part thinks we should collect more wild Panicum. And who are we to argue with him?
  • Hey, worst comes to worst, we can always build our own beer yeast.

Nibbles: Fiji lab, World Economic Plants, USDA garlic, Breeding conference, Borlaug Summit, Alex Morrell, Hayden Flour

Nibbles: Genebanks trifecta, Marley Coffee, Sorghum noodles, Biofortification Q&A, African oils, Cow diversity, Coffee course, Fructose deconstructed, Vanuatu chocolate, Candy bar phylogenies, Japanese copycats, Charger beer

Nibbles: Peanut history, Capsicum history, Sequencing history, Globalized rice, Sustainable salmon, Women & agriculture, Climate change & yields, Forest conservation, Bumblebee conservation

Brainfood: Sturgeon semen, Wheat biofortification, Wild barley future, Pest numbers, Wild potatoes, Mishan pig drift, Microbial models, Paspalum genomics, Chinese peanuts