Livestock

Nibbles: Ames genebank, G20 meet, European bison, Genomics training, Old words, Roadside Salvia

Yet another USDA genebank in the news. This time it’s maize.
G20 Agriculture vice-ministers recommend to “Support the development and promotion of a global information sharing system on plant and animal genetic resources.”
Bison returns to Germany.
Learn population genomics of crops and livestock.
Ebony is a pretty old word.
How Salvia got around.

GBIF Science Symposium presentations online.
Yes, I missed Mexico’s National Day of Maize too.
Europe has some biodiversity indicators. And wants them streamlined. Some agriculture in there, if you look hard enough.
WorldFish DG reflects.
CABI wants help with its new website.
Every breeder should have a seed chipper.
India pushes seaweeds and spices. How about evergreen agriculture, though? I feel a COP coming on…

$2 million to study strawberries sounds like quite a lot, but then it is to investigate polyploidy in general.
Agroforesters hear about IPR and agrobiodiversity. Probably not for the first, or last, time.
Let’s not forget that even animal husbandry can be organic.
“A lack of evidence to convince policymakers holds back progress on grassroots innovation in agriculture.” Weird; doesn’t seem to hold them back on anything else.
What Howard G. Buffett knows about small farms. Campaign for Real Farming has made his words available.

Analysis of threats to South American flora and its implications for conservation. Bottom line: Ecuadorian and Colombian Andes, southern Paraguay, the Guyana shield, southern Brazil, and Bolivia. But don’t let that divert your attention from the cool maps.
Management increases genetic diversity of honey bees via admixture. No genetic bottleneck there. And the same in more words, but not as many as the original paper.
Phylogeography of Asian wild rice, Oryza rufipogon: a genome-wide view. When in doubt, throw more markers at it. Two groups in O. rufipogon, only the Chinese/Indochinese one related to cultivated rice (indica). Japonica out on a limb. And the longer version.
Legume Diversity Patterns in West Central Africa: Influence of Species Biology on Distribution Models. Temperature variables are most important.
Multiple domestications of the Mesoamerican gene pool of lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.): evidence from chloroplast DNA sequences. Andean and Mesoamerican cultivated genepools confirmed, and two sub-genepools within the latter, one originating in western central Mexico and the other between Guatemala and Costa Rica. Will they mash up with the study in the first link? Some of the people involved are neighbours and friends.