Nibbles

Nibbles: Weed resistance, Mango diversity, Breeding, Climate change

Here’s a turnup for the books: kill weeds in many different ways to prevent the evolution of resistance.
The Society for the Conservation of Mango Diversity. my kind of society.
“The overall aim of the IICI is to bring improved crops that yield more per acre, are richer in essential nutrients and resistant to disease, insects and drought to small farmers in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Can I go home now?
Extinction news: If the heat don’t get you, the hunger will.

Reminiscing at ICRAF about the history of (some of) the intellectual underpinnings of land sharing.
The latest agrobiodiversity musings from Hyderabad.
More reminiscing, this time from a GCARD2 social reporter.
Dogs, the first domesticates?
India links up its biodiversity databases. Including NBPGR’s?
Iron-rich beans hit Rwanda. Rwanda reels from the impact. How long before someone thinks of dumping them into the ocean?
“There will be no nice wine from Sweden this year.” Oh, dear.
Documenting agricultural biodiversity. In Italian. Maybe Italy will now follow India (see above)?

Oh gosh, it was Tree Diversity Day and nobody told us.
Bioversity catch up with their own cacao strategy.
And IFPRI has a new one for you to comment on.
Caribbean agriculture gets another signed document to help it along. No word on whether agrobiodiversity featured.
Mango conservation gets organized. But not to the extent of an RSS feed, alas.
California owes Morocco for its olives.
Virus-resistant cassava imminent. Haven’t they been saying this for a while now? And is anyone thinking about what will happen to the virus-susceptible varieties?
Push-pull in the news.
The cost of everything, and the value of nothing, nature edition.
What’s the value of Arabidopsis, then?

Today’s genome is cowpea, yesterday’s was barley.
Maybe tomorrow’s will be sorghum?
More on that guerrilla food atlas thing.
So there’s an annual okra festival, and there’s a podcast about it.
Archaeobotanist says recent big rice genomics study changes nothing, is misleading. Why don’t you tell us what you really think, Dorian?

Up to their knees in wasabi. And, loving it.
iPlant Collaborative’s Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) ver. 3.0 expands its coverage.
Marine bird e-Atlas goes live. Meah.
GFAR tweets about old videos. Must be a reason for it.
Podcast on using sweet potatoes in baby food. Might well come in useful more generally.
My friend Valerie and former employer SPC get a namecheck in story about world’s largest taro genebank.