- E-book on using crop wild relatives in breeding.
- The aesthetics of conserving seeds.
- The best corn for whiskey.
- Going back to sorghum in Kenya.
- Another take on how to make a cool scientific poster.
- One way to crunch the numbers on eating local.
Nibbles: CGN, Software, Foods, MSB, Old date, Cacao lab, Cherokee seeds, Data viz, Popmillets
- New-look website for the Dutch genebank.
- Software for germplasm management.
- 198 countries, 198 fave foods.
- A visit to the MSB. With video goodness.
- Cherokee Nation sends sacred seeds to Svalbard. No video yet.
- Update on that 2000-year-old date.
- UC Davis gets a new cacao lab from Mars. Maybe a genebank next?
- Plot your data online, why don’t you.
- Puffing up millets.
Nibbles: Greek breads, Community seed saving double, Seed diversity, Domestication lecture, Food System Dashboard
- How many different kinds of bread do you think there are ancient Greek words for?
- “As phenomenally important as the USDA [seed banks] and the Svalbard [Global Seed Vault] are, they are repositories for biodiversity, not places we can call up to get seeds to plant five acres of corn.”
- As above, but in India.
- As above, but from a seed company.
- Barbara Schaal on domestication. With video goodness.
- A Food System Dashboard to rule them all: describe, diagnose, decide. Not there yet, but almost. It says here.
Nibbles: Genebanks & CC, Cherokee seeds, CWR art, Chefs & diversity, Plant Treaty, Beer!
- Another pean to genebanks from Mike Jackson.
- Cherokee Nation shares seeds.
- Mitsuaki Tanabe’s wild rice sculptures.
- Weird menus are the best menus.
- Despite everything “…the International Seed Federation (ISF) says the ITPGRFA remains the preferred tool for access- and benefit-sharing of genetic resources for plant breeders.”
- The proteomics of beer. And beards.
Nibbles: Ottoman food, Georgian cheese, Livestock data, Welsh oats, Spices, Global apples, Cape gooseberry, In vitro
- From börek to burricche.
- The mother of Georgian cheese. I’m sure they have their version of börek there too. If not, there’s always bread.
- Fancy StoryMap of global livestock production. No wonder there’s lots of cheese in Georgia.
- Bringing back rare Welsh oats. Well, someone has to…
- A short history of cinnamon. Does it go with börek?
- Beautiful apples. And some so ugly they are beautiful.
- Crowd-sourcing Physalis improvement. Very tempting.
- How to conserve in vitro and in cryo. Useful for the three things above, for example.