- Book on 65,000 years of Australian food.
- Many thousands of years of agrobiodiversity protected in Peru.
- But who needs all that when we have AI to phenotype wheat spikes in the field.
Nibbles: Wild potato, Pottery & food, Maltese, Denisse, Feeding Ourselves, Species concept
- Ancient potato.
- Ancient pottery.
- Ancient dog breed?
- Oldish botanical illustrations.
- Old argument: diversification or specialization?
- Even older argument: what’s a species?
Nibbles: Genebanks everywhere
- Genebanks on the BBC.
- A genebank for the Kahnawa’kehró:non.
- A genebank for Maharashtra.
- A (grapevine) genebank genotyped.
- A (potato) genebank used.
- A new tool for (coconut) genebanks.
Nibbles: Ancient Levant, Guinness cherry, NBPGR, Maize in Africa
- More than milk and honey.
- A very large cherry.
- A very large genebank.
- Let them eat sorghum, Zambian president says.
- That’s not an option for the Hopi.
Nibbles: Pasta al forno, Polynesian dispersal, Ryan Phelan talk
- More evidence that some food staples are going to be in trouble.
- Samoa to Rapa Nui in 400 years. But the Americas before that? Mash up with banana, taro and sweet potato next.
- TED talk on genetic rescue.