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Posted on May 29, 2020June 8, 2020

Nibbles: Lettuce breeding, SPC genebank, European genebanks, Messaging, New sorghum, Ancient DNA, Pastoralism review

  • A million bucks to save lettuce.
  • Genebank provides seeds shock.
  • The genebank of the future will provide data.
  • How to talk about genebanks (among other things).
  • A sorghum variety to keep an eye on.
  • The past, present and future of Cinchona.
  • Ancient genomics of people and dogs: compare and contrast.
  • Looking (up) to pastoralists for answers.
Posted on May 26, 2020

Nibbles: BSF, GNR2020, AI, IITA, Papa, Volcani, Yu, aDNA

  • The ITPGRFA’s Benefit Sharing Fund at work.
  • Remembering the Global Nutrition Report. Yes, I know it was only a few days ago.
  • Measuring poverty from space.
  • Interview with IITA’s genebank manager.
  • Humble-bragging the potato. In Spanish.
  • The Israeli genebank in the news.
  • Seed saving in China.
  • DNA from ancient Egyptian emmer.
Posted on May 22, 2020

Nibbles: Fusarium, Lactobacillus, Lycopersicon, Digitaria, Morus

  • The latest on TR4 resistant banana varieties in Australia.
  • Lactobacillus is in fact 25 genera.
  • Greenhouse tomatoes pretty diverse after all?
  • Digitaria: from weed to forage.
  • London’s mulberries.
Posted on May 20, 2020August 18, 2020

Nibbles: 4H, Plague medicine, Maize origins, Rice spread, Seed saving

  • Plant Health, Animal Health, Human Health and Environmental Health. What’s not to like?
  • It used to be thought that tobacco and sugar could help with the above. Go figure.
  • La Cuna del MaĆ­z Mexicano.
  • The same, but for rice in Asia.
  • Backyard seed saving, and science.
Posted on May 19, 2020May 18, 2020

Nibbles: Kenya forests, Australian grasses, Jackfruit processing, Turin fruit museum

  • Safeguarding Kenya’s forests the local way.
  • The latest from the Dark Emu guy. Is this how Australian Aborigines farmed?
  • Adding value to jackfruit in India.
  • No jackfruit in this astonishing collection of fruit diversity in wax, alas.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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