Domestication

Nibbles: Nagoya, Pomegranate Juice, Fort Collins, Sudan, Americas, Brachiaria, Chile, Nutrition, Deppe

Possibly interesting article on Nagoya ABS Protocol, but I’ll never know.
Pomegranate juice fraud?
Fort Collins genebank in the (local) news.
Sudan to become self-sufficient in wheat. Sorghum also involved.
James of the Giant Corn gives idiot pontificator a well-deserved drubbing.
Brachiaria forage not a “magic bullet” shock.
Chile moans about lack of benefit sharing, but fails to do anything about it.
DG of Bioversity beats agricultural biodiversity for nutrition and health drum shock.
Carol Deppe has a web site. (she’s the Backyard Vegetable Breeder person.)

Combining traditional and scientific knowledge on an invasive species to manage forests.
Variation in dryland trees: Balanites and Adansonia.
Roundup of biofortification bloggers.

A view from Papua New Guinea on a project to prepare PNG agriculture for climate change.
How to grow a properly biodiverse pasture. Hint: money isn’t enough.
Another Nagoya round-up. And another.
Sesamum monographed.
Award for CIMMYT genebank.
African rice domestication deconstructed.
Traditional practices bad for Nigerian children, good for Chinese fish.

African data centre planned.
“…genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity of plant anti-herbivore defences allow plant populations to rapidly respond to changing environmental conditions.” In a crop wild relative, no less.
The genetics of chicken domestication. I’d like to see the results of those crosses.
Do you have these heirloom tomatoes?
Getting increased heat tolerance from a wild relative into wheat.