- Best round up yet of what’s happening at Pavlovsk Experiment Station.
- Nature’s report on Pavlovsk is good too.
- Pavlovsk making waves in India too. S.Ananthanarayanan shares a write-up in The Statesman, Kolkata.
- More on that Chinese insect-eating fungus, or Chinese Love Flower. Yuck.
- A one-woman crusade for traditional African leafy vegetables. Right.
- Breadfruit trees in Jamaica. From the Trees that Feed Foundation, a new one on me.
Nibbles: Bent, Rice, Cheez, Pavlovsk, Millennium Seed Bank, Livestock, EUCARPIA
- Fine memoir of Sir Bent Skovmand. Thanks Dag.
- Rice yields falling — and not just in experimental stations. The paper.
- In all the eulogies to the inventor of the Cheez Doodle, a note of truth.
- You could buy the Pavlovsk genebank site for just USD3.3 million, it says here. Is that even doable?
- Meanwhile, over in England, Researchers Rush to Fill Noah’s Ark Seed Bank While Politicians Bicker.
- Meanwhile, in Australia, worries about declines in livestock diversity.
- EUCARPIA’s meetings calendar. Handy.
Nibbles: Greenhouse gases, Fellowship
- How to farm for greenhouse gas credits. There’s an online calculator (for the US)!
- Bioversity calls for applicants for the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships 2011.
Nibbles: Deregulation, Grapes, Bananas
- As with beer, so with beef. Gary argues for deregulation.
- Bring grapevines back to England, as ornamentals for the time being.
- Bacteria boost banana productivity.
Nibbles: More khat, Rice
- The Leaf of Allah.
- Japan invests US$6 million in rice research in Uganda.