- Dr Denise Costich says goodbye to the CIMMYT maize genebank. Sad.
- Dr Flint Dibble talks to himself about his Neolithic package.
- Europe’s plan for conserving transboundary livestock breeds.
- How are genebanks doing in the pandemic?
Nibbles: CWR, Data, Fires
- Yep, it’s Crop Wild Relative Week again! Never gets old.
- The work of a genebank is never done, NordGen documentation edition.
- Why genebanks? Let these people in the US Northwest tell you why genebanks.
Nibbles: Lost apple, Ducks, Chilli breeding, Heritage breeds, Population and Quantitative Genetics, Madeira
- Finding the Colorado Orange apple.
- British duck breed goes wild in Thailand.
- Might consumers care about genetics?
- Well they do, right? At least if they’re into heirloom varieties and heritage breeds.
- If they do care, they should read this book.
- Is madeira your desert island wine?
Nibbles: Artocarpus, Malus, Citrullus, spp, Asimina, Daucus
- The colonial history of the jackfruit in Sri Lanka.
- “…some of the best cider you can drink is as funky and wild as a 1970s Berlin bathhouse.” Ok, you twisted my arm.
- The world in a Philadelphia watermelon stand.
- Bee Wilson’s review of wheat book Amber Waves by Catherine Zabinski.
- The Canadian genebank at 50.
- Oh shoot I missed National Pawpaw Day.
- Podcast on carrot breeding using crop wild relatives.
Nibbles: Vavilov podcast, Pomological book, Wine press, Banana data
- Audio drama on Vavilov. You heard me.
- Proceedings from the First Annual Wild & Seedling Pomological Exhibition. First of many, I hope.
- A really old Phoenician wine press.
- Update on banana genebank data.