- Saving Dhofar’s frankincense tree. Evocative things they are too.
- The rich may have trouble getting into heaven, but they manage more agrobiodiversity. At least of rice. At least in Nepal.
- Gotta be careful with niche modeling in mountain areas. Well, duh.
- New Pacific food leaflets from SPC.
- Ok, how weird is it that I have a personal connection of sorts to all of the above? Probably not much.
- Ex situ not enough for wild rice. Say it ain’t so!
- The evolution of coffee.
- “If the rains do not fall we may face problems with certain crops.” Right.
- Network on natural fibres proposed by Industree Craft Foundation and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Sounds like fun.
- Screening lactic acid strains for sorghum beer making. Well, kinda. Somebody please fund this vital research!
Nibbles: Yucca, Biofuels, Indian food, Museum collections, Priority traits, GM bananas, Geographic targetting
- Yucca flowers not at all yucky to eat.
- Dept of Schadenfreude: First parasitic nematodes reported in biofuel crops.
- “I’ve often thought about this return to local knowledge and food in India.” Had no idea there had been a move away from local food in India.
- Biological collections porn.
- Breeders’ wish list published.
- First GM bananas harvested. Do they make good beer?
- How to do Geographical Extrapolation Domain Analysis. Off you go now.
Nibbles: Andean diversity, Mycoculture, Teff, Lentil
- Diversity to improve food security in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Mushroom farming in Kenya.
- Injera eating in Ethiopia.
- A new lentil! Be still my beating heart.
Where are those haskaps anyway?
A friend was excited to see a recent Nibble about the edible blue honeysuckle berry, or haskap. Alas, as she politely pointed out, “the link goes nowhere”. Which is weird because it obviously went somewhere when we wrote about it. On checking, though, and much searching, it turns out she is right. It seems like the source was what we in the trade call a splog, a blog that is effectively nothing but spam, and I cannot find anything on the web about the 1st virtual international scientific conference about those blasted berries. So, I’m removing the link from the Nibble, but leaving the text, and adding here a couple of genuine haskap links.
There’s Haskap Canada, which has a blog, and the Plants for a Future database entry. And those links are guaranteed not dead. And if you know more about that conference, we’ll be happy to include a genuine link in future.
Nibbles: Seed prices, Noni, Beef, Haskap, Grapes
- NYT reports on the US Justice Dept’s probe of seed prices. CAS-IP submitted evidence.
- University of Guam funded to study noni (Morinda citrifolia)
- Mostly-foliage-fed vs mostly-seed-fed: the debate continues.
- Edible Blue Honeysuckle berry news. Who knew? (Link removed as spam.)
- The Scientist Gardener tackles grapes. Cheers.