Nibbles: Date palm protection, IPCC report, Israel flora, Horsham genebank, Jubrassic Park, Broomcorn millet origins, Synthetic yeast chromosome

  • UAE date palms to get FAO recognition. So they’ll be ok then. Phew!
  • Unlike African agriculture, according to the IPCC.
  • Or Israel’s wild plants. Though what they intend to do about that is hidden behind a paywall. Can anyone tell me the answer?
  • The Australians know what to do. Build a new genebank
  • …and grown ginarmous brassicas.
  • Pat Heslop-Harrison for his part thinks we should collect more wild Panicum. And who are we to argue with him?
  • Hey, worst comes to worst, we can always build our own beer yeast.

Nibbles: CG diversity pix smackdown, ARTs in Bolivia, Fruits in Central Asia, Terra-i, FAO land use data, Agroforestry, Nagoya, Microwaves, Taxonomist Day, Spring!, Right to Food, Pacific food

Nibbles: Genebanks trifecta, Marley Coffee, Sorghum noodles, Biofortification Q&A, African oils, Cow diversity, Coffee course, Fructose deconstructed, Vanuatu chocolate, Candy bar phylogenies, Japanese copycats, Charger beer

Grapes or rootstocks

Grapes

One item of agricultural biodiversity interest from my visit to Bologna last weekend, this rather charming 1926 poster. ((Apologies for the quality. I took it after a rather wonderful lunch at Il Tinello, and alcoholic beverages had been involved.)) It offers, as you can see, American vines. And here’s my question: varieties, or Phylloxera-resistant rootstocks?