- Sweet potato yoghurt? Yeah, ok, why not.
- Decreasing coffee production in Kenya can reduce tree abundance and richness on farm, but increasing production will lead to more trees but not necessarily more diversity. No, I don’t get it either, but have a look at the data yourself and try to figure it out. There’s plenty of it in this presentation.
- Love of hot peppers as benign masochism. Myself I think it’s a sexual selection cue.
Nibbles: Push-pull award, MVP review, Thoroughbred breeding, Rice info, Aquaculture Clinic
- Push-pull pulls in prize.
- Which is more than can be said for the Millennium Villages Project. I wish someone would occupy them.
- You can have too much good breeding. If you’re a horse.
- Nice aerial pics of rice cultivation. And a sort of information service on that cereal called Rice 2.0, which unaccountably lacks an RSS feed.
- WorldFish invites entrepreneurs to get together and discuss investing in aquaculture. Here’s hoping diversity won’t be left in the dust.
Nibbles: Q&A, Zoopharmacognosy, Pigeonpea genome, Turkey, Wheat relatives
- Everyday agriculture mysteries solved.
- Other animals self-medicate too.
- Dueling pigeonpea genome sequencers? Who knew. Well spotted, James.
- I’m thankful for turkeys.
- And for the crop wild relatives in ICARDA’s genebank too.
Nibbles: Taiwan seedbank, American agroforestry
- Taiwan should establish a national seed bank. It says here. But will it be a genebank?
- Agroforestry in the USA and in the ancient Maya lands.
Nibbles: Heirloom cattle, Saleb, Wheat protein, Dog domestication, Rooibos
- Why Highland Cattle? Because they look so cool, of course.
- It’s sahlib time!
- Australians find the extra gluten protein gene they need in Italian wheat.
- Where the hell was the dog domesticated?
- Rooibos tea is latest climate change victim.