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Category: Domestication

Posted on March 12, 2008March 12, 2008

Nibbles: Donkey, women, bees, databases

  • Archaeological evidence of donkey domestication from Egypt.
  • Empower women farmers to ensure food security. Sounds like a plan.
  • Good reporter visits good bee research centre. Read all about it.
  • Genomics blog discovers CGIAR databases, love at first sight.
Posted on March 3, 2008March 3, 2008

Nibbles: Anti-diversification, chickens, bananas, registers, tropical fruits

  • US subsidy system prevents diversification. Via.
  • Chicken domestication; possibly more than you could ever want to know.
  • Red bananas; Raul unavailable for comment.
  • Filipino community registers agrobiodiversity.
  • Tropical fruit diversity conserved, studied and consumed in the US. That includes the citron. ((Note to Jeremy: that would be Citrus medica.))
Posted on March 1, 2008

Domestication galore

Not sure how we missed the special issue of Annals of Botany on domestication. All open access too.

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.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The US needs better maize.
    2. German genebank looks for the best potatoes.
    3. Vietnam looks for better rice in IRRI’s genebank.
    4. New Zealand markets an endophyte for better grass performance.
    5. Some Timor-Leste fish are better than others.
    6. The Himalayas have a better pea. Of some kind.
    7. How’s that for subversive cataloguing?

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