Nibbles

Nibbles: Carver, Banana phenotyping, Wild wheat project, Chinese chillies, Tea book

George Washington Carver‘s legacy lives on.
Finding drought-resistant bananas: the movie.
Mining wild wheat. Again.
The definitive book on hot peppers in China. And I’ll save you a few clicks, here’s the video alluded to in the review.
The definitive book on tea. Not just China either.

The future of Australian wine in maps.
A Svalbard for the human microbiome?
Plant breeders on the edge of the mainstream.
From FAO, a bibliography on seed systems and seed relief.
Book review: The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past.
Training seed producer groups can help their non-member neighbours too.
There will be marmalade for tea. But, spoiler alert, it might not be what you think.

Nordics upgrade genebank database.
Crowdsourcing Wollemi pine conservation.
Corals need a genebank too. And a database and crowdsourcing as well, no doubt.
Though I’m not sure they’ll be able to make the food security argument.
Or bring chefs on board.
What would a community genebank look like for coral, I wonder. And are they hiring?

Interactive website on bioclimatic corridors in Mexico. Bits don’t work, though.
Interactive website on climate analogues for Europe.
How Andean farmers are coping with the kind of changes mapped above.
Oh dear, climate smart agriculture is a myth anyway.
But saving seeds isn’t, thankfully.
Still not enough linkage with the GIAHS, though, but maybe this course will fix that.
Maybe start with peafowl? China shows us how.
How maize became a staple: quite early, and quite quickly, basically.
Not much coffee in early English coffeehouses. Amsterdam’s coffeeshops unavailable for comment.
Open-access magnum opus: Conservation Research, Policy and Practice.