Nibbles

Nibbles: Wheat database, Livestock maps, Indian apple genebank, UC Davis strawberries, Cheese fungi postdoc, Fruit domestication, Brassica genome, Early hunting dogs, Threatened species numbers, Bolivia conservation

A Wheat Germplasm Database To Rule Them All. No, not from CGIAR.
New livestock maps of the world. Yes, from CGIAR.
Kashmir ponders an apple genebank.
More from Game of Strawberries.
Wanna study the population genomics of cheese fungi? Course you do.
Domesticating local fruit trees good for nutrition, but need secure tenure and good planting material.
Building better broccoli, the genome way.
Early domesticated dogs helped in mammoth hunts.
Current extinction rate about 1000 times higher than background. Databases can help with that, believe it or not.
Building a national PGRFA system in Bolivia. When will they ratify the ITPGRFA, though?

Totally forgot if we already linked to this latest pean to open source seed.
Climate-smart agriculture described in three paragraphs.
Hope someone explains it to European farmers, and soon.
Italy is increasingly wooded. But only because farms are being abandoned. Maybe not climate-smart enough?
If only those farms had better links to markets, like in E. Africa…
Dutch food writer on the Jewish (maybe) origins of the Surinamese national dish. Gotta love edible aroids. Jeremy does his podcast thing.
Step 1: Breed your hops.
Step 2: Find a funky yeast.
Step 3: Crack the Kenyan beer market.
Back to real life: USAID’s brand new multisectoral nutrition policy. Now, then, what’s the betting that the agricultural interventions supported by USAID avoided the risks that such things often hold for nutrition (incomes, prices, types of products, women social status and workload, sanitary environment and inequalities)?
SeedMap.org breaks down crop wild relatives.
Somebody mention crop wild relatives? Yes, Sandy Knapp.
Somebody mention parientes silvestres de cultivos? Yes, Nora Castañeda.
How many CWR will go the way of Arabidopsis? Because southern populations of that species in genebanks are already doing better than local populations in northern sites.
How many crop wild relatives in Kew’s meadows?

How to keep seeds dry. Don’t do this at home, folks! No, wait…
Don’t get trapped in the yield gap, researchers told.
Diana Buja breaks down banana brewing.
Night temperatures cross important threshold for rice.
Cultural change does not have to mean genetic erosion and loss of agrobiodiversity knowledge.
Getting youth back into agriculture. Not just about the money.
Latest from the tragic ICARDA situation

Could teff or millets topple wheat, maize and rice? Anyone for unintended consequences?
Not if superior models lead to bigger wheat harvests. ’Cos that’s all it takes.
That and a good book: Yield Gains in Major U.S. Field Crops.
Did somebody mention models? Vorarlberger Bergkäse is a model cheese, and “The rind is the boundary layer between a cheese and its environment”. Welcome to the cheese microbiome.
What’s the difference between a wine grape and a table grape? Simple: Pectic-{beta}(1,4)-galactan, extensin and arabinogalactan-protein epitopes.
Bee biodiversity results in mo’ bigger blueberries. Now to make use of that.
Seed policy wonks – you know who you are – will thrill to IFPRI’s new report: The seed industry in Pakistan.
So how does that square with the Financial Express of Bangladesh’s discovery that “Agro biodiversity can improve nutrition and health”?
How to make baobab juice. Time to edit those factsheets.