Nibbles

Nibbles: Apple diversity, Quinoa diversity, Potato diversity, Indian coconut, Mead recipe

The need to diversify apple breeding.
Unlikely pean to the world quinoa core collection. I believe we may have blogged about it.
And the Commonwealth Potato Collection rounds off today’s trifecta of cool genebanks.
Kerala’s coconut problems only start with root wilt. Aren’t there coconut collections that could be used to solve them? Well of course there are.
Recreating bochet, a medieval mead, sounds really hard, but worth it. Someone want to start a mead collection?

26 million hectares of forest were lost in 2020.
Genetic groups in grizzly bears line up with Indigenous languages in British Columbia. How about the trees, though?
But why weren’t grizzly bears domesticated? Because they’re not friendly, feedable, fecund and family-friendly.
Drones and wheat breeding.
Crowdsourcing okra evaluation. No drones involved.
Health-conscious urban Indians eat millet for health reasons. Goes great with okra.
The Common Table: sharing stories about reforming the food system. Like a couple of the above.

If you’re into quinoa, you’re probably going to need this directory.
Hybrid rye is becoming a useful participant in maize-soybean rotations in the Corn Belt where giant ragweed is a problem.
New insect-trapping wild tobacco species described from Australia.
Biotechnologist and social scientist in conversation about genetic modification and gene editing.

Crawford Fund training materials for high schools include discussion of genebanks.
And that would go quite well with this graphic novel on natural selection in Mimulus from Health in Our Hands.
There’s a Global Tree Knowledge Platform from ICRAF…
…which could probably be usefully mashed up with the restoration platform Restor.
The Sumatran striped rabbit makes a rare appearance. On Facebook.
The World Bank makes the economic case for all of the above. Well, maybe except the Sumatran rabbit.