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February 24, 2011February 24, 2011

Nibbles: Buckwheat, Dates, Book, Apples, Geographical indications

Buckwheat yields boosted by diversity in nearby forests.
Date (press) with the past, in Qatar.
Sustainable Intensification: Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems. A bit steep at GBP65 for 30 papers; we’ll be reading and sharing what we find.
Apples, endangered? Well, yes.
What’s so good about geographical indications anyway?

February 22, 2011February 22, 2011

Nibbles: Cassava, Brazil, Taro, Tobacco

High-protein, vitamin-A enriched cassava. It’s GM, but it doesn’t have to be. Apparently.
Resilience Science shows us the modernist face of intense and diverse agriculture in Brazil.
The Scientist Gardener gives taro, and our pal the TaroMeister, some respect.
A tobacco festival! Celebrating the diversity of cigars! In Cuba! (Where else?)

February 18, 2011

Botanic gardens get the treatment

We probably don’t give botanic gardens the attention they deserve. So it’s a pleasure to point out that Biodiversity and Conservation has a special issue out on Botanic Gardens in the Age of Climate Change, with a focus on Europe. Lots of interesting stuff in there, including from some old friends.

And since we’re on the subject of published papers, I’d like to say what a good idea it is to include an illustration in the abstract of a paper. I had not come across this before I stumbled on the example here on the left in a recent Scientia Horticulturae paper on Citrus phylogeny.