- Analysis of Correlations Between Climate and Molecular Adaptive Evolution of Wild Barley with Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Some genes are associated with climatic variables in wild barley, others not so much.
- Molecular Genotyping of Historical Barley Landraces Reveals Novel Candidate Regions for Local Adaption. Latitudinal structuring in northern European barley landraces down to 7 SNPs. Not clear if related to above.
- Morphological and genetic diversity assessment of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) accessions differing in origin. Not much geographic structure.
- Ploidy and domestication are associated with genome size variation in Palms. Tall coconuts show more variation in genome size than dwarfs.
- Protected areas effectiveness in maintaining viable giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) populations in an agricultural frontier. I just wanted to link to a paper on the giant anteater.
- Genetic Diversity in Seedling Populations of Mango. What exactly are “sucking purposes”?
- Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security — a case of teff. Hipsters will save orphan crops.
- Conservation of Rice Genetic Resources for Food Security. In the Philippines genebank, that is.
- Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill]: Importance as A Crop and Pedigree Reconstruction of Korean Varieties. 168 of 178 varieties released in the last 100 years in Korea can be traced to 4 pedigrees.
- In-situ Conservation of wild forest coffee — Exploring the potential of participatory forest management in south west Ethiopia. It’s the communities, stupid.
- Switchgrass Germplasm Resources. Upland and lowland ecotypes, different ploidy levels, latitudinal differentiation, and a national collection at USDA to play with.
- Participatory evaluation of Guinea yam (Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.–D. rotundata Poir. complex) landraces from Benin and agro-morphological characterization of cultivars tolerant to drought, high soil moisture and chips storage insects. 5-15% of over 400 varieties (including duplications) are good for one thing or another.
Nibbles: Seed Treaty, Grelo festival, Large tomatoes, Saffron collecting, Enset redux, Grassland diversity, Census 2016, Organic definition, Dalit seeds, Ancient wheat DNA, Ancient American farmers, Tree adaptation, Syrian crops at OFN
- What civil society said at the latest Governing Body meeting of the ITPGRFA earlier this month.
- Google Translate fail puts spotlight on the cruciferous crop I’ve always known as fiarielli but which is sometimes called rapini. Both names kinda suck.
- That’s one huge tomato.
- That’s one expensive spice.
- Rediscovering enset.
- Grassland biodiversity good for resilience to climate change.
- Global agriculture: here comes the data.
- Deconstructing organic. The word, that is.
- Empowering dalit farmers by recognizing their knowledge of seeds.
- That ancient underwater wheat DNA wasn’t so ancient after all. Maybe.
- It was migrants who forced the ancestors of the Pueblo people to move.
- Local adaptation in trees: what has it ever done for us?
- Another way to safeguard Syrian crop diversity.
Brainfood: Wild maize, Elderberry phenolics, Barley & boron, Land sparing trifecta, Sustainable diets, Chinese apple diversity, Turkish okra diversity, Barcoding yams, Plant diversity levels, Biotic velocity
- Presence of Zea luxurians (Durieu and Ascherson) Bird in Southern Brazil: Implications for the Conservation of Wild Relatives of Maize. Well there’s a turnup for the books.
- Fruit Phenolic Composition of Different Elderberry Species and Hybrids. Some interspecific hybrids have high phenolics levels.
- Diversity in boron toxicity tolerance of Australian barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes. There’s variation beyond the 4 known boron tolerance loci.
- Agriculture and the threat to biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Intensification is good for biodiversity, but not yet.
- Land for Food & Land for Nature? The former, according to modelling. But it depends. See above.
- Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification. Trifecta!
- Is a Cardio-Protective Diet Sustainable? A Review of the Synergies and Tensions Between Foods That Promote the Health of the Heart and the Planet. Yes, but it will take some work.
- Genetic diversity of Malus cultivars and wild relatives in the Chinese National Repository of Apple Germplasm Resources. The varieties from the former Soviet republics and Japan are different to each other and to the canonical European/North American/Chinese material.
- Genetic and phenotypic variation of Turkish Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench) accessions and their possible relationship with American, Indian and African germplasms. Turkish okra comes from all over the place.
- DNA barcoding of the main cultivated yams and selected wild species in the genus Dioscorea. 16/21 species I guess is a start.
- Plant responses to climatic extremes: within-species variation equals among-species variation. For a bunch of European grassland plants, within species variation in response to climate was as high as that among species.
- Biotic and Climatic Velocity Identify Contrasting Areas of Vulnerability to Climate Change. Tropical species can’t move fast enough.
Nibbles: Kiwi breeding, Nagoya Protocol, ITPGRFA, Hablitzia, Eating insects, Patents, European forests, Native American foodways, Plant protein, Broken bread, Apples, Dog cartoon, Climate change & yields, Seed pix
- Building a better Hayward kiwi.
- Adapting to Nagoya.
- But if the Treaty works, maybe you wont need to. And that includes farmers’ rights, of course.
- The Caucasian Spinach is a new one on me, but I’d try it.
- Eating insects is safe. But I suspect that was never the issue.
- What have patents ever done for us?
- Europe’s forests are in a state. See what I did there?
- Yes, it’s time for this year’s seasonal “wild rice” story.
- The non-meat future of protein.
- Does bread even have a future?
- Well, how would you describe an apple? Maybe by use? In the meantime, Tom “The Appleman” Adams is taking the next step.
- Dog domestication explained.
- Nice map of what climate change will do to crops. Spoiler alert: it’s not good.
- The beauty of seeds.
Brainfood: Pigeonpea gaps, Indian rice diversity, Brazilian melons, Ifugao terraces, Collard greens, Climate analogues, Brachiaria diversity, Philosophy of genebanks, Wild barley & drought, Pepper valuation
- Identification of Gaps in Pigeonpea Germplasm from East and Southern Africa Conserved at the ICRISAT Genebank. Lots of collecting work to do.
- Rice Diversity – The Genetic Resource Grid of North-East India. 10,000 cultivars?
- Diversity of Melon Accessions from Northeastern Brazil and Their Relationships with Germplasms of Diverse Origins. Have come from all over.
- Disentangling Values in the Interrelations between Cultural Ecosystem Services and Landscape Conservation—A Case Study of the Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines. They may be beautiful, but they need to be profitable.
- Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Collard Landraces and their Relationship to Other Brassica oleracea Crops. Collard can be used as a source of diversity for other brassicas.
- Climate Analogues for agricultural impact projection and adaptation – a reliability test. Fail.
- Genetic Diversity and Structure of Ruzigrass Germplasm Collected in Africa and Brazil. The move from Africa to Brazil did not too adversely affect the diversity of this important forage Brachiaria.
- Saving the gene pool for the future: Seed banks as archives. “Decisions about how to salvage the past are always, necessarily, about how we value the future.”
- Response of Cultivated and Wild Barley Germplasm to Drought Stress at Different Developmental Stages. The wild is better.
- Screening Genetic Resources of Capsicum Peppers in Their Primary Center of Diversity in Bolivia and Peru. Different entrepreneurs in different countries value local peppers differently.