Nibbles

Nibbles: Dog origins, Dutch wheat trials, Chinese agricultural origins, Grass endophytes

This origin-of-dogs saga is getting tedious. Figure it out, already.
Dutch wheat varieties still improving.
Chinese ate wild grasses for 20,000 years before domesticating crops.
Fungal endophyte helps tall fescue cope with drought and high temperatures, but some fungal genotypes more than others. And some do it without producing livestock toxins.

Climate change is going to hit us where we live. Or die.
How to make GBIF more relevant for agrobiodiversity: a 10-point plan.
Killer fungi on the loose? ‘Twas ever thus. But genomics will save us?
Planting trees is good for lions too.
There are still medieval oaks in England.
“…where sommelier-like ‘budtenders’ sell gourmet ganja in a designer showroom.”
Rewilding the wild horse.
More about the cassava variety Kasetsart 50, poster child for CGIAR impact.
It’s not just genetic resources that are contested. Yep, agronomy too.
“Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold.”

The next step in the evolution of participatory plant breeding is evolutionary plant breeding.
1458 livestock breeds are in trouble.
A blast from corn’s past. In more ways than one, as this article from High Country News is kinda old.
The Chinese market in African wildlife is bad for both.
Let them eat plastic.
Maclura pomifera is apparently all the rage in Iowa.
There’s more to Italian wine than chianti.
“You can’t really get fucked up on kava.” I beg to differ.
Two independent pieces on the continuing evolution of humans to cope with their diet: starch, milk and meat.

Mike Jackson wants to know how many crop varieties you can name. Please tell him. My number is 42.
This is what CRISPR looks like. In an infographic, that is.
Japan’s rice terraces were better for biodiversity when they were, you know, full of rice.
A Wendell Berry biopic?
Yep, more on eating insects. It’s definitely a thing now.