Nibbles – Page 492 – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

June 5, 2007June 5, 2007

Orange cauliflower gene

The gene for orange cauliflowers promotes storage, not manufacture, of carotenes. A new approach to enhancing nutrition?

June 4, 2007June 4, 2007

Guinea pigs

As well as feeding Andean peoples for centuries, guinea pigs have helped win twenty-three Nobel Prizes.

Bioinformatics projects database

Interested in information on biodiversity information projects?

June 1, 2007June 1, 2007

Sustainable tea

Unilever, which buys 12% of the world’s tea production, wants it all certified sustainable by 2015.

Agave paper

There’s a paper out on the diversity of Agave in Mexico, the source of tequila.

1. Times of India says “India needs a new doomsday seed vault.” Why not just use the one already there in Svalbard?
2. Meanwhile, women in the Sundarban are doing it for themselves.
3. Maybe it’s community doomsday seed vaults that India needs?
4. Fiji’s cassava is facing a doomsday of its own.
5. Georgia — the country — is working on a documentary on crop diversity which will no doubt include their seed deposit in Svalbard.
6. Kenya has a pretty good community genebanks video of its own.
7. Nigeria is all over crop diversity. Not just once, but twice.
8. Coffee prices going up? Can you imagine what will happen if we don’t conserve enough of its diversity?
9. Want more examples of the coolness of crop diversity and its guardians? Slow Food has your back.
10. La Via Campesina needs to encouragement either, where “peasant seeds” and their guardians are concerned.
11. Even the World Economic Forum wants in on the act.
12. And yet the seed sector seems…reluctant?
13. Good job Genesys is getting faster, eh?
Published on June 2, 2025