Nibbles

Nibbles: Bush tucker, Amazonian tea, Bolivian genebank, Global diets, Heirloom wheat, Clam gardens

Aussie native vegetables on the menu. No Latin names, but Rhizowen Radix tell me: youlk = Platysace deflexa; kulyu = Ipomoea calobra.
Another non-scientifically named plant is set to save the Amazon. Turns out it’s Ilex guayusa. Probably.
World Bank to build genebank in Bolivia.
World Coffee Research puts out nice variety catalogue.
Our paper of a couple of years ago on globalized diets makes it to Scientific American and gets mashed up with the latest one.
Purple patch for Purple Straw?
Yes, you can garden clams.

What the Pacific islands need to do about climate change. What, nothing about conserving and using crop diversity? My friends at CePaCT will be pissed.
What West African farmers are doing about climate change.
Yeah, I guess it’s not always and only about crop diversity. But would it kill them to mention it?
And if you’re interested where the Pacific (and West Africa, and everywhere else) gets its food from…
Peruvian black mint is a thing. But not a relative of coriander.
Yaupon is also a thing. Though it won’t go far with that scientific name.
Recreating a Renaissance herb garden. Because we can. Where’s the Peruvian black mint, though?
Eat rare breeds to conserve them. Not rare advice.
No wall can keep out landrace maize.
Ethiopian beer gets a boost.

It’s not the science, stupid.
More kelp, sir?
New genome promises ~~world domination~~ non-allergenic peanut.
The diet of Roman soldiers in Glasgow could have been worse. But did they have take-out?
There is no more Nature, capital N.

There’s Carolina Gold in them thar hills. Latest in a long list…
Kava in the Pacific, island by island.
A really ugly heirloom turnip is Vermont’s state vegetable. In other news, there are state vegetables.
This video will make you want to make your own paper, I guarantee it.
Oh come on, we missed Peru’s National Potato Day?
Crop remains confirm Malagasy origins. But was Carolina Gold among them? Here’s the paper.

All of BGCI’s ex situ surveys on one cool page. Have they re-modelled their website?
Harvard’s glass flowers are totally cool.
The world’s coolest trees.
Rhubarb is cooler than you think.
I’m not sure paying over a thousand pounds for a pumpkin seed is all that cool.
Conventional breeding is cooler than genetic engineering. Cool quote of the week: “I tell my students they should drop acid before they go to the field, and just look at the plants and let them tell you what they are doing.”
Is the coolness over for quinoa? Jeremy unavailable for comment.
Cool Pakistani bug may help with citrus greening in the US. But don’t stop looking for resistance, y’all.