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Posted on April 9, 2008April 9, 2008

Nibbles: Alabama genebank, sunflower, fruit dispersal, IAASTD

  • Seed bank saves Alabama heirloom varieties, y’all.
  • Retrotransposons go wild in sunflower. Kansas to the rescue.
  • Avocados and gomphotheres. Apples and bears. Welcome back, Evil Fruit Lord!
  • More about the IAASTD and its paradigm shift thing.
Posted on February 29, 2008February 29, 2008

Nibbles: Carnival, pomegranates, cattle, potatoes

  • Berry Go Round No. 2 is up with lots and lots of botanical links.
  • Pomegranate juice manufacturer says its juice is best.
  • Cattle and aurochs did the wild thing.
  • The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has a potato genebank. With pic goodness.
Posted on February 27, 2008February 28, 2008

Nibbles: Peas, corn, marama, peaches, bees

  • Follow along with the adventures of an amateur pea breeder. Mendel comments: “go for it, girl”.
  • And the corn (maize) genome is announced, apparently with recipes. Via.
  • Namibians domesticate nutritious wild legume. Mendel comments: “what’s wrong with peas?”
  • New Zealand (re)discovers square peaches. Mendel unavailable on this one.
  • Honeybee evolution summarized.
Posted on February 13, 2008February 13, 2008

Farmers and hunter gatherers in Africa

The human genetics of farming transition in Central Africa. Lots more here.

Posted on February 6, 2008

Plant barcode gene identified

Plant barcoders finally find the gene.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. FAO explains why crop diversity matters.
    2. Well, for one thing, there’s food prices, that’s why.
    3. Ah, yes, crop diversity: “You gotta have it. You gotta use it. You gotta talk about it.”
    4. Odisha mainstreams landrace diversity in its seed system.
    5. Meanwhile, the Farmers Union of Cyprus is stashing seeds away in Community Bank of Cypriot Traditional Seeds.
    6. Looks a bit like the Groupements de Production Artisanale de Semences in Haiti. If you squint.
    7. If only there were some guidelines for managing such community seed banks.
    8. Iraqi Kurdistan gets in on the genebank act.
    9. Iraq used to have a genebank, but what happened to it has just happened in Sudan.
    10. Ah, to have a Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index so that such things could be predicted and steps taken.
    11. And a monitoring system and some targets would be good too.

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