- 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.
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.
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.
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 Maíz Mexicano.
- The same, but for rice in Asia.
- Backyard seed saving, and science.
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.