Nibbles

Nibbles: Coral genebank, Seeds, PROTA

A new frozen genebank — for corals.
CAS-IP blogs about the launch and success of MASA, the Malawi Seed Alliance.
Promising new plants for Africa from the PROTA database; a book. So many promises …

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.

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.