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Nibbles: Ruby chocolate, Wild Cicer, Lost rices, Breeding beans, Pawpaw, Pink pineapple, Indigenous livestock, Aquaculture, Coffee Atlas, Egyptian beer, Tequila shortage, Crop diversity

Call for proposals on African pollinator informatics.
The Linnean Society puts “Wheat Taxonomy: the legacy of John Percival” online. Heroes all.
The Brazilian genetic resources congress gets a Facebook page.
There’s also a bamboo and rattan congress coming up.
A time capsule is dug up in Canada, and it’s got seeds!
Seeking rice SNPs? Use snp-seek.
What links the Dutch Easy India Company with a measles outbreak in the US? The answer will probably not surprise you.
We really need some new wine grape cultivars. I mean REALLY new.

Goat grass genome to the rescue.
No, some other weedy grass genomes to the rescue!
Weeds could actually be lost crops.
Clif Bar endows Bread Lab.
Symposium on the future of tea. Mother-in-law alerted.
You’ll need milk for that tea: breeding cattle for more production and less burping.
Aunty Fran Bodkin: Australian botany hero.
Field Museum field guide to Ecuadorian landraces. Of all things.
Learn about red-listing.
Study the microbial communities of cabbage leaves.
Cheese rind has complex microbial communities too.
So, anyways, this was fun.

Blockchain for ABS touted at Davos. The Economist is there.
But will it be at the World Potato Congress? I’m betting no.
But for sure some Germans will be.
Martha Stewart will be in Svalbard.
Crops for the Future was On the Menu.
Culinary Breeding Network is in Hawaii. Lucky them. But would it have killed them to provide a link?
I want to be in Lebanon.
There are a lot of pretty seeds in Paul Smith’s new book.