Couldn’t resist posting this photo of a truly weird sheep.
Nibbles: Pigeonpea, Agrobiodiversity book, Agroforestry
- USC promotes pigeonpeas. And why not.
- “Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security: A Critical Review” by J M Lenné and D Wood hits newsstands.
- How ICRAF intends to stop agroforestry being marginalized in the new CGIAR. Their words (more or less), not mine.
The morality of data trawling
Is it morally questionable for a genebank to trawl the internet for information from other researchers about its accessions? Ruaraidh thinks maybe, Robert that it would be morally questionable not to do so. Read the full exchange in the comments to our recent post about germplasm documentation being a two-way street. What do you think?
Diversity everywhere
We cannot be the only ones to have noticed that in the past couple of weeks there has been a spate of papers on different aspects of the link between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning:
- The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems.
- Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review.
- Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology.
- Genotypic richness and dissimilarity opposingly affect ecosystem functioning.
Needless to say, we’re working our way through that little lot, so you wont have to. More soon. Unless, that is, someone out there wants to do the honours?
Nibbles: Buffalo, Future plants, Thai rice
- The International Buffalo Knowledge Resource Service has a website. No, really.
- Plants for a Future website includes crop wild relatives. No, really.
- Thai jasmine rice trademark pirated. No, really?