Nibbles

Nibbles: NHM, CGN, NordGen, ICRISAT, Chai, Cacao, Coffee, Amazon, Indian aromatics, Spying, Talking cattle

Dr Sandy Knapp on botanical monographs. Solanum, of course.
Dr Joukje Buiteveld on fruit field genebanks in the Netherlands.
NordGen adopts GRIN-Global.
Hybrid pigeonpa in the Indian news.
All the tea in India. And Ireland?
The rise of craft chocolate.
And here’s the beverage trifecta: coffee in Ethiopia.
Seed collecting in Brazil for reforestation.
NBPGR does medicinals.
You wanna be a “germplasm acquisition coordinator“? I bet you do. But watch out…
Podcast on cattle domestication. Dr Hans Lenstra from Utrecht University in the hot seat.

Seawater is the next water.
EMBRAPA’s booklets on “unconventional” vegetables.
Money should put its money where its money is.
Kids make genebank.
Malta makes genebank.
Native Americans used to smoke unusual tobacco species, and non-tobacco species too for that matter.

The Xylella butcher’s bill mounts up.
Webinar on the Plant Treaty.
The history of the humble: potato, sweetpotato, guinea pig.
Agroforestry in the forest.
Unilever does C labelling. Biodiversity next?
Hacking apomixis in sorghum and cowpea so farmers can save seeds of hybrids.
Temperature range and plant host range of fungus and oomycete pathogens change rapidly and are not correlated.
In from the cold: Rudolph’s genome.
Rethinking public gardens in a series of 5-minute presentations.

From Indigenous communities, to Carol and Robert Mouck, to the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul Motherhouse, to the Kingston Area Seed System Initiative and Ratinenhayén:thos: seed rematriation in Canada.
Simran Sethi gets to the bottom of the COVID seed sales surge.
And more on the same from Dan Saladino.
There’s been quite a surge in quinoa in the past few years. All presentations here.
And the potato has been getting around too of course. The podcast of the book.

Australia delves into black rice, thanks to IRRI genebank.
Romans had mandarins after all.
Switzerland protects walnut oil.
Hanging gardens, lagoon farms and traditional bamboo agroforestry are exactly what I need at the moment.
The IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group has a new website.