- ICRISAT recommends diversity to cope with climate change in India.
- US urban farmers “mad as wet hens“. City chicks?
- US urban farmers with a view to die for.
- CWR becomes nuisance when free of soil pathogen.
- Convicts help with germplasm regeneration and multiplication.
- The “gold-standard set of curated polymorphisms” for rice.
Nibbles: Bees, Weeds, Free fruit, Flour, Bombus
- Colony collapse disorder: where are we now?
- Weedkiller diversity essential to maintain weed susceptibility.
- Eat the streets.
- Ancient Grains Flour Blend. A baker asks: Whatever next?
- Bumblebee beauty.
Nibbles: New Agriculturist, Coffee
- New Agriculturist is out. Among many cool things, check out the piece on crossing rice with a wild relative to make it perennial.
- Nestle finds 33 elite coffee trees in Indonesia, evaluates 6, will use these to produce seedlings by somatic embryogenesis. What could possibly go wrong?
Nibbles: Chilli, Extension, Africa, Genebank, Potatoes, War, Angora
- Cool new use for hot peppers: fungicides, for agriculture and human health.
- Community Knowledge Workers transformed into “Mobile Banana Disease Monitors”.
- Grain “call[s] on African peasants to resist and protect their agriculture, as they have always done”.
- Near Corvallis, Ore, USA? Wanna tour the genebank? Wanna write it up for us?
- New World Catalogue of Potato Varieties. A pedant asks: “Any Old World varieties in there?”
- Germany is said to be demanding entire Rumanian wheat crop, also part of what is left over from 1938 crop. Orwell’s approaching war.
- Saving the Angora goat in the US.
Nibbles: New genebank
- How do you say “I know! Let’s build our own national genebank” in Nepalese?