Nibbles – Page 458 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

October 12, 2007

Magic mushrooms banned

Bad news for Dutch agrobiodiversity. Castaneda unavailable for comment.

October 12, 2007

More on submersible rice

Rice survives immersion: Man from Atlantis unavailable for comment.

October 12, 2007

Reconnecting the food chain

“Alternative food networks” are good for you.Â

October 11, 2007October 11, 2007

Journalists trained on biodiversity

Journalists trained on biodiversity: agriculture not available for comment.

October 9, 2007

Responding to salinity

Aussies breed salt-tolerant wheat.

- China is building its germplasm collection at the National Frigid Zone Crop and Soybean Germplasm Resources Mid-term Bank in Harbin. Cool.
- Driscoll’s helped build China’s blueberry industry, then discovered that knowledge, infrastructure and genetics have a habit of escaping. Not so cool.
- Meanwhile, the Philippines wants its rice collection to hit 21,000 varieties by the end of the year. IRRI unavailable for comment.
- Italy is establishing a major global olive genebank. Unclear where it fits in with other major global olive genebanks, but some redundancy is good.
- FAO showcases Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, where crops, landscapes and traditional knowledge have survived together. Like olives in Italy, I guess.
- The mangelwurzel is making a comeback, because apparently forgotten root vegetables just need better publicity, and not a fancy GIAHS.
- Ohio growers are trying to save the pawpaw just as Americans are discovering it, partly because of better publicity.
- BeanGPT is bringing AI to breeding and farming beans. Maybe it can help the mangelwurzel and pawpaw too?
Published on September 23, 2026