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.
Nibbles: Amazon agriculture, Livestock conservation, Chestnut redux, COP 10, Stone Age flour
- More on that thing about how the Amazon was once pullulating with people. And why.
- Why conserve livestock genetic resources. And one possible way to do it.
- The American people are bringing back the American chestnut.
- COP-watchers, something to amuse yourselves with if things get dull.
- Even Neanderthals understood the benefits of a diverse diet. Though not, perhaps, of jewellery.
Share Fair set fair to share
The “AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair” is off and running at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa, and will continue until 21 October. You can follow proceedings in all sorts of web 2.0 ways, detailed on the blog. There’s no specific “learning pathway” on agrobiodiversity, but that’s ok, there’s still plenty of interest to us here. Including a “food fair” which will focus on “sharing the indigenous/local content embedded in African food.” Wish I was there for that!