- Parade of Polyploids! I know, but that’s what it says on the site.
- Balls.
- Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant: The Joy of Genes … Illustrated. Teachers, use it!
- How mongooses got to Spain.
- Pears that look like apples.
Nibbles: Tamarind, Fire, Aquaculture
- A single tree that is also a genebank? Holy tamarind.
- Looking to kangaroo bones for evidence of Aboriginal terraforming.
- African fish farming links. Via.
Nibbles: New Agriculturist, Sheep, Jatropha, Carrots
- All about potatoes.
- Mutant sheep to attack Australia.
- An Indian Jatropha genebank in the news. And a study to tell us where to collect more using some really cool software.
- The ‘Purple Dragon’ carrots are coming up in a variety of colours but mostly not purple.
Nibbles: Goats, Fowl, Goats & fowl, Bees
- Kenyans turn to dairy goats.
- Ugandans advised to turn to local chickens.
- Kenyans told: “Change your old farming methods or face starvation.” Jeremy says: “I’m confused.”
- Irish bees — rescue plan. Thanks Danny.
Nibbles: Potato genome, Horse genetics
- Sequencing the potato genome “to meet the world’s food needs in the future”. Via.
- Genetics of horse colour.