- Podcast double: Georgian kitchen gardens (with pix) and Italian citrus.
- Domestication infographics are now officially a thing.
- Feeding the world with vegetable research, courtesy of AVRDC. Need to register, alas.
- Zambia biofortifies. Maybe they didn’t register for the above.
- Camels as biocultural artifacts.
- European Seed Association breaks down the tumultuous last 18 months of the European seed sector.
- “It takes more than 40 different species to make a simple lunch…”
Nibbles: CIAT genebank, Breeding course, Tomato sequencing, EUFORGEN celebrations, Gates projects, GCP quiz & video, CFS41 ITPGRFA side event
- A new genebank for CIAT?
- DuPont Pioneer sponsors a plant breeding symposium at Wageningen University. You can attend by webinar but you have to register. But I fear this is going out way too late. Sorry! Nevermind, you’re still in time for this.
- 360 tomato genomes give an all-round view of its evolution.
- EUFORGEN turns 20. Don’t know EUFORGEN? Watch this video. Or go to this side event.
- Self-reproducing hybrid cowpea and sorghum? Gates Foundation is on it. Ah, but it’s not all sweetness and light in Seattle.
- It’s also a bit late, so don’t expect a prize, but you can still take the GCP World Food Day quiz just for fun.
- But for real fun, watch their cassava video.
- Oh my! Judge for yourself whether it was worth listening to.
Brainfood: Polyculture services, Apple resistance, Clover seed storage, Oil palm diversity, Alternative foods in Italy, Oregano chemicals, Pig diversity, IPR and indigenous people
- Do polycultures promote win-wins or trade-offs in agricultural ecosystem services? A meta-analysis. Yes, at least if the services in question are per-plant yield and biocontrol.
- Susceptibility of apple genotypes from European genetic resources to fire blight (Erwinia amylovora). 3 of 40 were resistant.
- Effect of sulphuric acid scarification on seed accessions of cluster clover (Trifolium glomeratum) stored in a genebank. Potentially disastrous.
- Genetic diversity of the world’s largest oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) field genebank accessions using microsatellite markers. 3 groups: extreme W Africa, rest of Africa, Madagascar. Choose parents based on genetic distance, though, not just genetic group.
- Introducing territorial and historical contexts and critical thresholds in the analysis of conservation of agro-biodiversity by Alternative Food Networks, in Tuscany, Italy. Alternative Food Networks can contribute to conservation, but they need context.
- Chemical diversity among different accessions of Origanum vulgare L. ssp. vulgare collected from Central Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India. 2 chemotypes, the one with higher thymol mainly from higher altitudes.
- Merging Molecular Data for Evaluating Cross Country Genetic Diversity of Pigs. Microsatellite datasets from USA, China and Brazil successfully combined and analyzed together. Should be more of this kind of thing.
- How Are Indigenous and Local Communities’ Rights Over Their Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources Protected in Current Free Trade Negotiations? Highlighting the Draft Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TTPA). Indigenous people are generally not given stronger rights over their intellectual property in international instruments compared to non-indigenous people. Rights over IP are in general stronger than over genetic resources.
Nibbles: ILRI@40, CIAT cleanup, Breadfruit factsheets, Spice book, Senegalese e-goats, Natural history collections, Seed supplies, Bean breeding, Institution building, Eat This Podcast, Phenotyping, Indian eggplant, GMO Terminator
- ILRI celebrates 40 years with a major conference.
- Keeping the CIAT germplasm collection nice and clean.
- New variety information sheets from the Breadfruit Institute.
- Review of Gary Nabhan’s new book, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey.
- Buying goats online.
- What would you do with one billion historical biodiversity data points?
- The tools of the seed-saver‘s trade.
- How to stress your beans, and why.
- A place for conservation organizations to hang out and share. You have to register, but this looks interesting.
- Jeremy has a second Twitter home.
- All 115 plant image analysis software solutions…
- Hyderabad’s brinjal obsession.
- A GMO terminator technology?
Nibbles: Old pig, Good old Twitter, Old apples, Old nuts, Crap coffee, Dutch AnGR, Seaweed food, SP breeding, Women and nutrition, Florida peaches, Poisonous plant garden, Botanic gardens, Future climates in Iowa, Edible insect directory, Big Food wakes up to CC
- The oldest pig in the world is Vietnamese-Canadian.
- Why plant scientists should tweet. And draw.
- Trifecta of apples and other heirloom fruit. Make that four.
- And nuts.
- Making civet crap coffee sustainable.
- Dutch animal genebank moves.
- Will the inmates be fed seaweed? There’s a collection of those, you know?
- More money for to make sweet potato more nutritious.
- Or, you could empower women. Or both.
- Trouble with citrus? No problem, grow peaches.
- World’s coolest garden.
- And why we need even the less cool ones.
- Testing present plants in future climates.
- Who’s who in edible insects.
- Big Food suddenly realizes it has a climate change problem.