Nibbles

Nibbles: Taxonomic search, Genebanks in China, USA, Nepal, Scaling up, Bison

Discover taxonomic names in files, websites, etc…
Chinese genebank collecting wild species in Tibet.
Touring a non-government genebank. And running another one.
Not a community one, though.
Everybody talking about scaling up. Here’s how you do it. Probably need the media involved, right?
Scaling up did for the bison.

The National Fungus of Japan explains itself.
The aurochs recreated in fact and fiction. And more.
Yes, that’s what we need to make good on all those GM drought-resistance promises: a new model system. And now for something a little more serious.
Some protected areas don’t work terribly well. Here comes the science.
Darwinian Agriculture explained by the man himself.
Ancient diets deduced from teeth crap and crap crap.

You’ve heard of alternative lifestyles? Now read all about alternative pollinators.
Why should we spend money digitizing natural history collections?
Not all quinoa cultivars may be good for celiacs.
The largest comparative growth experiment ever. Hope some of the 600+ species are crop wild relatives.
Mangroves trap heavy metals. And sequester a lot of carbon. But they are moving. Thank goodness there’s lots of ways to value the services they provide.
CABI’s Plantwise Knowledge Bank is online.
Kew boffins blow up coffee. The genus, settle down.

Genebanks in trouble in Syria and India. One of these stories is somewhat overdone.
And that, it seems, is your lot for today.

Climate Adaptation Country Profiles from the World Bank. Better than you might think.
You don’t need the whole genome, apparently. Now they tell us.
Where the global food industry is going. Some opportunities there if you think agrodiversity is important, Shirley.
Wait, there’s a 6-day international event on gelato?