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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on October 8, 2007October 8, 2007

Genome of cereal disease fungus sequenced

Fusarium head blight fungus genome decoded.

Posted on October 8, 2007October 8, 2007

More on bluetongue and climate change

UC Davis vet explains how bluetongue disease is changing.

Posted on October 5, 2007

Safflower in Japan

Pollen find pushes back date of safflower move to Japan.

Posted on October 4, 2007

Rice art

All good things come to an end. But not usually this well.

Posted on October 3, 2007

Vitis genome

Uncommon Ground ably unpacks Nature paper on grapevine genome.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. In the UK, Herefordshire’s Museum of Cider is picking up national recognition for its genebank of heritage apple trees. The BBC’s canonical autumnal apple story comes a little early this year.
    2. Speaking of iconic apples, Kazakhstan is scaling up efforts to bring back the Aport, the giant heirloom that once made Almaty famous. No word of museums, though. Or cider.
    3. Over in the Philippines, Department of Environment and Natural Resources is beefing up its rattan genebank to keep pace with demand, with forest stewards in Bukidnon planting seedlings to match. Furniture makers need genebanks as much as cider makers.
    4. Sri Lanka’s pre-Green Revolution heirloom rice varieties, purana haal, are being eyed for their resilience and disease-management potential. Good thing they’re in the national genebank.
    5. Saudi Arabia’s Jazan terraced coffee farms are turning into rural and ecotourism hotspots, proving not all agrobiodiversity needs to be in a genebank to survive. But it helps.

    Published on August 9, 2026

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