Nibbles: Cryo genebanks, In situ network, Biodiversity fund, Swiss grape, Coffee history, Wild plant use, Plant breeding impact

  1. Panel discussion on cryopreservation in genebanks on 25 June, save the date!
  2. Forget cryo, what about a network of European network for the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources, in cultivation and in the wild? See who is interested. And express interest yourself.
  3. Germans launch Legacy Landscape Fund for biodiversity hotspots. European in situ PGR conservation network unavailable for comment. Let alone cryo genebanks.
  4. I wonder if that European on-farm conservation network will include the Completer grape, ideally in a monastery.
  5. Decolonizing coffee. Somebody want to write about religion and crops?
  6. Using wild plants in south and southeast Asia. Maybe they need a network too.
  7. Plant breeders say plant breeding is really important.

Brainfood: Wind, Strawberry breeding, Species concept, Apple domestication, Potato breeding, Organic cereals, Feed the Future, Kiribati diets, Mexican June, Armenia genebank, Maori kumara

Managing seed on the web

The ambition of the CoEx ((Gouvernance adaptative des stratégies de gestion de la diversité cultivée)) project is to improve our understanding of the gap between (1) seed policies and laws and (2) farmers’ seed management practices. Such a gap is detrimental to the access and mobilization of a wide variety of seeds by farmers.

Intrigued? Speak French? There’s a webinar on the project today.

Brainfood: Filbert genome, Weed evaluation, Cocoa bugs, Grass genes, Perennial ag, Forage quality, Forest gardens, Protected areas, Anthropocene, Pollinators, Neolithic burials, House mice