Nibbles – Page 459 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

October 9, 2007

Wild goat threatened

Upgrade of Mughal road endangers markhor.

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Bumblebees disappearing

Bumblebees too?

October 8, 2007October 8, 2007

Soil maps of the world

Need a soil map? Hat tip: The Lubin Files.

October 8, 2007October 8, 2007

Genome of cereal disease fungus sequenced

Fusarium head blight fungus genome decoded.

October 8, 2007October 8, 2007

More on bluetongue and climate change

UC Davis vet explains how bluetongue disease is changing.

- 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