Nibbles

Nibbles: Cahokia book, Grape stats, Tides of History, Medieval Arabic cookbooks, Bangladesh hydroponics

Prof. Gayle J. Fritz gets 2020 Mary W. Klinger Book Award for “Feeding Cahokia.” Beyond maize and priests.
The ups and downs of grape varieties. Airén relinquishes the top spot! So much data: who will calculate diversity stats?
Nice, long podcast on the beginning of farming in the Fertile Crescent. More coming up.
“Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table” is the sort of cookbook we all need.
What is it about floating gardens? Quite a lot, really. But they are not easily transplanted, as it were.

Seeds going home, thanks to the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network and others.
Matooke gets its first hybrids.
Avocado gets its first solid cryo protocol.
The agricultural challenges and opportunities of African urbanization. No word on the fact that more and more ag will be urban ag. Or on what it will all mean for crop diversity.

R package for roaming around the web and collating taxonomic information.
Cool tool for climate matching and tree restoration seed targeting in New South Wales. Probably needs more than a Nibble.
Results of webinar on ‘Implementation of Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS)’ in India. With video goodness.
The whole Colombian seed conservation network on one annoying website.
Those really old dates bear fruit at last. Do you remember the paper on the genetic diversity aspects?
Growing a rye landrace on a Swedish island for organically certified seed. And more.

Boffins clone Przewalski’s horse.
Boffins start fish genebank. Cloning next?
Boffins deconstruct the breeders’ equation. Apply to fish next?
Boffin (and Jeremy) discusses how the chilli pepper got to China. Goes well with fish. The pepper, not the podcast.

3000 peas go to Svalbard.
Bananas 101, courtesy of Prof. Pat Heslop-Harrison.
Video goodness on Neolithic Greece from the aptly named Flint Dibble.
Plants to dye for. With. Sorry. Dye with.
Brands climb awkwardly on the biodiversity bandwagon. Genebanks look on, enviously.