- FAO sets data free. About time.
- Presentation on drought risk and preparedness around the world. Nice maps.
- A Facebook for seeds?
- The diversity of Jerusalem artichoke. In France.
- Coffee certification 101.
- Nice plug for SPC’s Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees.
- The fig of choice in San Francisco.
- Back to traditional rice varieties in India. But forward to new pigeonpea varieties in Malawi. Go figure.
- Navajo tea. Would love to try it.
- “The mixed (east-west) affiliation of Mongolian cattle parallels the mixed affiliation of Mongolians themselves.”
- Lancet article mentions Lois Englberger and her Go Local work in the Pacific in context of diabetes epidemic in Asia-Pacific.
- Edible art.
- More on bringing back the aurochs. Does anyone really want one, though?
- Great variety of rare and exotic poultry breeds. Temptation to pun smuttily averted, mostly.
Nibbles: Arachis, Hay, Flax, Green Revolution, Zea genomics
- Rethinking peanut genetic diversity. All you need is a new marker.
- Saving the English hay meadow. Hey, there’s a few crop wild relatives in there, apart from anything else!
- 30,000 year-old fibres not flax after all?
- Today’s modifier for “Green Revolution” is “old-fashioned.”
- Maize evolution is a tale of chromosome doubling and subsequent divergence of the two sets.
Nibbles: Balanites, Yeast, Loquats, Radishes, Bamboo, Lamb
All science, some of the time.
- Morphological variation in Balanites aegyptiaca fruits …
- Non-conventional yeasts.
- Genetic Diversity and Identity of Chinese Loquat Cultivars/Accessions …
- Genetic Diversity of Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) Germplasm Resources …
- Genome-wide characterization of the biggest grass, bamboo … Bored yet?
- Characterization of Awassi lamb fattening systems: a Syrian case study.
Nibbles: Rice panicles, Cassava brown streak, NTFP
- Gene controlling rice architecture may hold promise for increased yield. Unless, of course, it doesn’t.
- Attempts to control a deadly cassava virus in central Africa. I hope someone is conserving those susceptible varieties. They may be useless now, but who knows what the future will bring? And more questions.
- And following the Kibale post, more on non-timber forest products and their trade.
Nibbles: Sorghum and rice and climate change, Pacific agrobiodiversity today and yesterday, Japanese microbiota, Wolf domestication, Organic and fungi, Crop wild relatives, Bees, Hunger, Silk
- Sorghum going to need a hand in India. Rice in China? Maybe not so much.
- Photos of the 6th Annual Hawaii Seed Exchange.
- More Pacific stuff: 3000-year-old Lapita chickens were haplogroup E, “a geographically widespread major haplogroup consisting of European, Middle Eastern, Indian, and Chinese domestic chickens.”
- More on that thing about the gut biota being adapted to ethnic diets.
- Wolves may have been turned into dogs earlier than previously thought.
- Organic farming good for underground mutualists. Which sounds totally appropriate somehow.
- Crop wild relatives: all you ever needed to know.
- Bring back bees by bringing back the boy scout bee-keeping badge.
- Here’s a weird one. US to cut 1.5 trillion calories from food by 2015. And there are 1 billion hungry. You do the math.
- Farmers rear endemic moths on intercropped host plants for high quality silk in Madagascar. Enough hot buttons in there for ya?