- A very British baked bean.
- Hopefully it will prevent the sort of malnutrition for which there is archaeological evidence from Romano-British times.
- Although they did have lots of nice meat.
- “…differences in height by season of birth may not be due to climate-related fluctuations in nutrition or infections…” after all. No, not in Roman Britain.
- Recovering Israeli wheat landraces.
- Recovering a lost beer-snack radish.
- Will traditional Mongolian herding ever recover?
- New Zealand’s genebank in the news.
- The cool uses of potato wild relatives. And wheat too.
Nibbles: Jeanne Baret, Vigna, Musa, Indicators, Livestock, Oranges & lemons, Breadfruit, Seed warrior
- The story of the bougainvillea has a bit of everything.
- The story of the cowpea as told by its DNA.
- The banana has a really complicated story.
- Untangling the story of nutrition indicators.
- Telling the story of why livestock is important.
- The deep story of citrus.
- Another chapter in the story of breadfruit in Jamaica.
- Debal Deb tells his story in NY.
Nibbles: Colombian seeds, Seed diversity, Local crops & nutrition, Seed saving, Apple origins, Microbial collections, Dairy cows in USA, Bean sculptures, IPCC report, Potato linguistics, Piña cloth
- Climate-smartness and seeds in Colombia.
- Why do we need 158 varieties of cauliflower?
- Maybe it’s the nutrition? Gotta get those value chains working though: here’s how.
- Also, it will save the world.
- Biting hard into apple origins.
- Microbes need collections too.
- And cows.
- Inflatable beans. The jokes write themselves.
- Did I already link to my work blog post on the IPCC report?
- Papas or patatas? It’s…complicated.
- I want me a pineapple shirt.
Nibbles: ICRISAT genebank, Rubus, Microbial collections, AnGR, Xylella podcast, Andean ag, Chefs galore, Zizania, Peas, Inflatable beans, NUS, Potato Day, TR4, CC impacts, Cereals
- Wanna work in a genebank in Niamey?
- More on that proposed livestock genebank in Uganda.
- Microbes have collections too.
- On his holiday, Jeremy mainly looked at dead olive trees. Freak.
- The Potato King looks like a cool movie. Chef Ramsey’s latest? Maybe not so much.
- Oh crap, we missed National Potato Day. Not in Peru, settle down.
- More chefs, this time fiddling with rice in Tanzania, of all places.
- Will they do wild rice next?
- Peas getting a chance. But are they going to get inflatables like these bean varieties?
- But does it qualify as underutilized still, I wonder?
- Get to grips with brambles. The whole series is worth following.
- TR4 reaches South America’s bananas. Be afraid.
- Climate change will affects the region’s rainfed maize too.
- You’ll want sustainably sourced breakfast cereals to put those non-existent bananas on. Hey, companies, what about conserving genetic diversity along with that soil?
Nibbles: Mango diversity, Feral hogs, OFSP, Synthetic kava, Linen, Posters, Pigeonpea pre-breeding, Breeding, Ancient yeast, European seeds
- Nevis has 44 kinds of mango, including Amory Polly, which could actually be Amrapali आम्रपाली.
- A twitter thread on “hogs, ferality, and race in American history.” If that doesn’t make you click nothing will.
- “Can sweet potatoes reduce widespread vitamin A deficiency in Africa?” Guess.
- The end of kava as we know it?
- Making linen.
- Better scientific posters? Here’s hoping.
- Pigenonpea pre-breeding lines hit the bigtime.
- Mapping fires from space. Part of an early warning system for crop wild relatives?
- Roundup of how some breeders are preparing crops for climate change.
- No expiration date on yeast.
- A couple of European crop diversity projects: DYNAVERSITY and ReSEED.