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Posted on September 18, 2007

British grub

Britain’s oldest recipe sounds as awful as more recent fare.

Posted on September 18, 2007

Seedless lemon mutant

Pip-less lemon launched. Cocktail drinkers rejoice.

Posted on September 18, 2007September 18, 2007

Biotechnology annual report available

The biotech industry’s annual pat-on-the-back report is available from ISAAA.

Posted on September 17, 2007

Hot peppers celebrated

Damn, I missed the Peperoncino Festival!

Posted on September 12, 2007September 12, 2007

More Malus mayhem

I guess it’s the season. More apples today, again from both sides of the Atlantic. From Britain, an invitation to Apple Days at East Malling, a celebration which will feature the (troubled?) National Fruit Collection. 1 And from the Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune, more news of American apple breeding, featuring David Bedford of the University of Minnesota.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. A North Macedonian professor’s 15-year rescue mission for landraces and crops surviving only in remote villages. Why bother? Stay tuned…
    2. Ancient grapevines in Tigray represent a unique genetic lineage with potential value for breeding varieties adapted to dryland conditions.
    3. Hawai’i Public Radio checks in on Maui’s coconut genebank. Useful to breed varieties adapted to really wet conditions, presumably.
    4. The Cayman Islands are also hoarding coconuts, along with lots of tasty fruits.
    5. A USD 400,000 boost from Taiwan for the Eswatini national genebank. Indigenous vegetables get much-needed love.
    6. A regional survey of 25 orphan crops across 13 Latin American countries finds quinoa and amaranth well-catalogued, but characterization budgets are the real bottleneck. Collecting and conserving in genebanks is great, but not enough.
    7. South Korea puts 330,000 seed accessions under “double lock”, hedging against both climate change and war. Conserving in one place is not enough.
    8. FAO warns that nearly a third of the world can’t afford the USD 4.28 a day that a healthy diet costs — nearly three billion people, and rising. That’s why we need al the above, I guess.

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