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NordGen genebank information system gets a boost.
Uji for everyone in Kenya, thanks to genebank and breeding.
Assam’s government supports a field genebank. One of many such efforts in India.
Will Bonsall‘s genebank needs help. Maybe should move to India.
Video on the Italian olive plague. This is why we need genebanks.

Trees help natural enemies of pests in vanilla plantations.
Cool video by Sherry Flint-Garcia on the history of maize. And its genetics.
CIMMYT releases a bunch of interesting maize pre-breeding products, though they don’t call them that.
Retired Turkish teacher starts seed bank.
Area man is really into fruits.

There’s a series of interactive workshops to gather feedback on how to measure the Global Burden of Crop Loss. I want an initiative on the Global Burden of Crop Diversity Loss though.
Soil data makes its way to Google Maps.
CONABIO has some really excellent agrobiodiversity posters and other resources. Calabazas and amaranth are just the start, so dig away on these orphan crops and others.
Speaking of digging, ancient people got high. Well there’s a shocker.
Speaking of shockers: huge literature review says researchers should get to grips with smallholders.

Podcast on Vavilov’s genebank.
What Vavilov’s genebank is up to at the moment with its melons.
Meanwhile, UK sets up a Crop Microbiome Cryobank.
How to breed apples.
Here’s how you can check if all of the above are free of the taint of white supremacy.