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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.
Posted on May 18, 2020May 21, 2020

Talking genebanks

Watch the recording on Facebook, if you can. And that’s hot on the heels of this discussion hosted by the Global Landscapes Forum.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Johnny Appleseed basically set up fruit tree genebanks 200 years ago.
    2. Modern fruit tree genebanks could probably learn something from Mr Appleseed.
    3. Is there a Mr Lycheeseed, I wonder?
    4. There are probably some fruit tree collections at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.
    5. Saudi Arabia is betting on tree genebanks. Maybe even fruit tree genebanks.
    6. All genebanks need to share their data, according to the guy in charge of helping European genebanks share their data.
    7. Can you put a value on genebanks? Should you?

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