- Wanna grow plants in the Jordanian desert? Invest $250,000.
- Wanna grow plants in the Maharashtra summer? Invest $20.
- There’s a world saffron crocus collection. Who knew? A review is coming.
- Coloured chickpeas contain more antioxidants. Well, yeah.
- SciDev.net says scientists say coastal trees not much good against tsunamis, and may be bad news generally.
- Rhizowen crosses species barriers, develops ficifoliaphilia, poor chap.
Nibbles: Heirloom veggies, Rubber, Breadfruit
- Royal Horticultural Society asks Welsh gardeners to “bring out their dead” (TM Cherfas).
- Rubber photos.
- More on breadfruit from our friend Diane Ragone.
Nibbles: Potato, Research, Tobacco, Bees squared, Seed diversity, Declaration
- “The Jersey Royal is the only potato that enjoys protected designation of origin…”
- Agricultural research not enough?
- Wild crop relative switches pollinator to escape nasty caterpillars.
- Bushmeat hunters become beekeepers.
- And here’s why beekeeping is such a good thing.
- Diversity deemed a good thing, even for crazed monoculturists.
- ‘Keep biodiversity or face hunger’. Yet another Chennai Declaration.
Nibbles: Cassava, fonio, apples, Salicornia, aurochs, seeds
- Nagib Nassar challenges the wisdom of GM cassava. Cultivate indigenous and wild varieties of the crop!
- Or fonio (Digitaria exilis). New paper on its diversity.
- And for dessert? Wild apple diversity?
- Need salad? How about Salicornia then?
- Nice aurochs steak to go with the salad?
- Not too soon to start planning a future harvest, if you’re in Ireland and want seeds.
Nibbles: Patents, Wheat value, Maize, Perennial crops, Mango killer
- US, Brazil patent gene from Tanzanian sorghum. What could possibly go wrong?
- How much is wheat diversity worth? CIMMYT book tells you.
- More corn colour stuff from James.
- The promise of perenniality.
- Mango killer fungus on the rampage in the Gulf. Any resistant varieties? We’ll soon find out, I guess.