Nibbles

Nibbles: USDA maize genebank, Apple breeding, Seed conservation, Soil map, Scoring supermarkets, DNA barcoding, Stone Age Hypoxis, Hybrid wine, Lost crops, Boswellia, Leucokaso, Species mixtures

Nice student video on the genebank and breeding programmes at Iowa State.
Speaking of breeding programmes and videos, here’s Sean Myles on his work on apples in Canada.
Seed conservation legend Richard Ellis on what climate change is doing to seed quality.
An amazing new global soil properties map is open for business.
Scoring supermarkets for the human suffering they represent.
The future of DNA barcoding…is here.
Cotton 101.
Strong evidence of Middle Stone Age tuber cooking in southern Africa.
French wine growers dip a cautious toe into the grapewine interspecific genepool.
Yields of mixtures of now “lost” native American crops comparable to those of maize.
The canonical yearly frankincense story in honour of Epiphany.
Biblical white olive makes a comeback in Italy.
Useful update of mixture studies.

Fruit flies facilitated the birth of the hybrid yeast that made cheese possible. Thanks, fruitfly!
Ah, but an upgrade is coming: precision fermentation.
How business can track its effects on biodiversity. Should it want to.
How to make it easier, more profitable and more sustainable to bring healthy foods to market. Someone mash it up with the above?
How to design policies for countries seeking to provide healthy diets. Someone mash it up with the above?
40 years of NordGen. Happy birthday! Then someone mash it up with the above…
Celebrating poultry diversity through art. No need for mashing, just celebrate the weirdness.