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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on October 7, 2021

Nibbles: True to the Land, Marcapata Ccollana, Yield Systems

  1. Book on 65,000 years of Australian food.
  2. Many thousands of years of agrobiodiversity protected in Peru.
  3. But who needs all that when we have AI to phenotype wheat spikes in the field.
Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021

Nibbles: Wild potato, Pottery & food, Maltese, Denisse, Feeding Ourselves, Species concept

  1. Ancient potato.
  2. Ancient pottery.
  3. Ancient dog breed?
  4. Oldish botanical illustrations.
  5. Old argument: diversification or specialization?
  6. Even older argument: what’s a species?
Posted on October 1, 2021October 1, 2021

Nibbles: Genebanks everywhere

  1. Genebanks on the BBC.
  2. A genebank for the Kahnawa’kehró:non.
  3. A genebank for Maharashtra.
  4. A (grapevine) genebank genotyped.
  5. A (potato) genebank used.
  6. A new tool for (coconut) genebanks.
Posted on September 28, 2021September 27, 2021

Nibbles: Ancient Levant, Guinness cherry, NBPGR, Maize in Africa

  1. More than milk and honey.
  2. A very large cherry.
  3. A very large genebank.
  4. Let them eat sorghum, Zambian president says.
  5. That’s not an option for the Hopi.
Posted on September 24, 2021

Nibbles: Pasta al forno, Polynesian dispersal, Ryan Phelan talk

  1. More evidence that some food staples are going to be in trouble.
  2. Samoa to Rapa Nui in 400 years. But the Americas before that? Mash up with banana, taro and sweet potato next.
  3. TED talk on genetic rescue.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The US needs better maize.
    2. German genebank looks for the best potatoes.
    3. Vietnam looks for better rice in IRRI’s genebank.
    4. New Zealand markets an endophyte for better grass performance.
    5. Some Timor-Leste fish are better than others.
    6. The Himalayas have a better pea. Of some kind.
    7. How’s that for subversive cataloguing?

    Published on September 16, 2025

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