Genebanks

Nibbles: Beautiful models, Beautiful bank, Organic FAO, Eskimo diet, Indian medicinals, Maya nut studentship, Fishy infographics

Official confirmation of the need for better crop growth models.
More on CIP’s high-tech spud bank. In other news, CIP also has banks of other Andean roots/tubers, but don’t get me started on that one.
“FAO has relegated organic agriculture to a footnote in the discussion of food security in the long run.” Fighting talk. Wonder if that will change with the new DG.
Cook like an Inuit.
Cultivating medicinal plants in India. Let’s see how that goes.
Wanna study the Maya nut?
More great Guardian infographics, aquatic edition.
“This one tastes like cotton candy.” Breeding strawberries the hard way.

And speaking of eloquent images, here’s another one, this time from the world of animal genetic resources conservation.

Ooops, no, that’s not the one I meant. It was this one:

Which comes from the draft FAO Guidelines for the In Vivo Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources. Lots more details there. Via CGN.

July issue of CSA News, official magazine for members of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America, has article on “Crop Adaptation to Climate Change” based on official CSSA position statement, “Crop Adaptation to Climate Change.”
Factsheet on bacterial diversity and why it’s good for soils.
FAO guidelines for the In Vivo Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources discussed in Europe.
Please eat the daisies. Or other flowers.
Farming chips.
Never thought I’d get bored of reading about ancient beer.

Wakehurst Place, a photo by luigig on Flickr.

This is where Kew’s seed research programme, including the genebank, was housed before they built the Millennium Seed Bank. Pretty cool, eh?

Guess what. Cranberry pests prefer certain varieties.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. Estimating yield of food crops grown by smallholder farmers from IFPRI.
CIAT first CG centre to publish peer-reviewed video, on resistance selection. In other news, there are peer-reviewed videos?
CFTF draws our attention to Jackfruit – Forgotten Kalpavriksha, “a common trope”.
$3.4 million worth of good news for food security and diversity in the Andes. “Small Andean tuber crops” involved.
Minor millets star in new film shared by Bioversity.
Want the Philippines to be self-sufficient in rice? Eat rootcrops. IRRI unavailable for comment.
Way more than any sensible person will ever want to know about duck and goose semen.