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Nibbles: Taxonomic web, Oz restoration tools, ABS in India, Colombian seeds, Old date, Diverse cereals

R package for roaming around the web and collating taxonomic information.
Cool tool for climate matching and tree restoration seed targeting in New South Wales. Probably needs more than a Nibble.
Results of webinar on ‘Implementation of Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS)’ in India. With video goodness.
The whole Colombian seed conservation network on one annoying website.
Those really old dates bear fruit at last. Do you remember the paper on the genetic diversity aspects?
Growing a rye landrace on a Swedish island for organically certified seed. And more.

Boffins clone Przewalski’s horse.
Boffins start fish genebank. Cloning next?
Boffins deconstruct the breeders’ equation. Apply to fish next?
Boffin (and Jeremy) discusses how the chilli pepper got to China. Goes well with fish. The pepper, not the podcast.

3000 peas go to Svalbard.
Bananas 101, courtesy of Prof. Pat Heslop-Harrison.
Video goodness on Neolithic Greece from the aptly named Flint Dibble.
Plants to dye for. With. Sorry. Dye with.
Brands climb awkwardly on the biodiversity bandwagon. Genebanks look on, enviously.

Remembering Robin Graham, prophet of biofortification.
Honouring plant breeder supreme Fred Blisss.
Need to produce seed of all those new varieties that breeders come up with.
And save the stuff they will replace: The Economist does the potatoes of Chiloé.
Hey, it’s not just about the crops: conserving goats on farm in India.
The experimental archaeology of bread thrives under corona. And if you were intrigued by the potato detoxification reference, find the details on Bill Schindler’s website. And not only bread and potatoes, also beer…
Like Mozart’s oat beer? Which was apparently killed off by lager back in Austria but is now available in Denver.
Food shouldn’t be cheap, it should be affordable, and not only for those who consume it. Ancient Egyptian bread will be exempted.
No way Kenyan coffee can be described as cheap. h/t Jeremy’s newsletter: have you subscribed yet?
I don’t know how cheap mungbean is in Myanmar, but it seems to be very valuable.
The PNG singing dog is not extinct in the wild after all? Priceless.
Combination of key and photo guide to the identification of European fungi. Worth its weight in truffles. Source.

Vavilov in Spanish.
Song about the potato Solanum ajanhuiri from Aymara to Spanish to English.
Using blockchain to trace biofortified seeds. Maybe.
Vincent Lebot on the opportunity that Covid-19 represents for traditional Pacific crops. Silver lining.
Botanic gardens to the rescue. Wouldn’t that be cool.