Nibbles

Nibbles: Genebanks and CC, Use of genebanks, Wild potatoes, Potato evaluation, TLB breeding, Canadian tree genebank

Climate change is sending people to genebanks…
…and leading to their holdings being used in lots of different and interesting ways.
Collections of wild potatoes will surely be very useful…
…for projects such a this, for example.
And there’s also taro leaf blight to see to…
…as well as trees important to Indigenous people to be conserved.

Will American single malt whiskey be a thing? Depends on the American barley.
Is the fruit in Paul Gauguin’s Eü haere ia oe (Woman Holding a Fruit) a coconut? Have your say.
Will the World Seed Congress sow a brilliant future? We shall see.
Is the oil palm over in West Africa? Depends.
Where are we with that post-2020 biodiversity deal? Nowhere much yet.

More on how Future Seeds fits into the global system of genebanks. And more still.
You can immerse yourself in the Irish Seed Savers genebank.
Do you want chips with your tree genebank?
There’s a sort of cherry blossom genebank in the Smithsonian Gardens.
The Economist fails to mention genebanks in its piece on how to save coffee from climate change. Here’s an EU project that’s using coffee diversity for adaptation.
Jeremy’s latest newsletter looks at everything from the denazification of cattle to yams. But not genebanks. Subscribe anyway!

Prof. Bhaskar Vira on why we should look beyond the staples, and even beyond agriculture, for sustainable food and nutrition security.
He means things like burití I guess.
And achacha, a plantation of which you can now visit in Australia, of all places.
And anything else that is a “potential as sources of functional and nutritious ingredients that could replace, complement or aid in reformulating the existing food products or developing new ones”? Well, maybe…