Oooooh, Molecular Ecology Resources has a whole special issue on “Advances in the Analysis of Spatial Genetic Data.” There goes the weekend.
Nibbles: Wild Hordeum, Barley landraces, Funny cucumber, Dogs, Wild Manihot, Taxonomy, ABS, Capsicum farmer selection, Bulgarian genebank
- Crop wild relatives from genebank in use shock.
- Landraces from same genebank in use shock. Hopefully a full blog post is coming soon from the author himself.
- Would you eat this cucumber?
- Dog evolution, again.
- New wild cassava species found.
- Thank goodness for our name-based bioinformatics infrastructure, eh?
- The history of benefit sharing deconstructed. Nothing on ITPGRFA?
- Mexican chili farmers maintain rather than direct with their seed selection.
- My genebank is bigger than your genebank!
African cereal systems mapped
It’s over a year old, but I’ve only just learned about the ILRI publication “A production system map for Africa.” Looks interesting. I’ll just reproduce here the map showing the extent of different cereal-based system, with the main species involved. Looks like Angola is the most cereal-diverse country in sub-Saharan Africa. As with all such maps, one (or at least I) longs to plonk the locality of germplasm accessions on top of it. And to know how they relate to other crop maps produced by the CGIAR system.
Information overload beckons
More reading to do, damn. Thanks to Jacob for finding a pointer to Kyoto Journal’s Biodiversity Edition. It includes a special section on satoyama, a hymn to the attractions of biodiverse diets, and a paean to seedbanking. Among many other things. Meanwhile, there’s also the new issue of Biodiversity Informatics, which focuses on the digitization of natural history collections. When am I going to be able to get any work done?
Nibbles: Nepal genebank, Banana mapping, PNG diet, Climate change
- More on the inauguration of the new Nepal genebank.
- Someone else thinks crop production maps might be useful in prioritizing germplasm collecting. No, wait…
- Diverse diets are good for you. Well I never. No, it’s always good to have the data.
- Andy Jarvis feeds reptiles climate change facts shock.