Nibbles

Nibbles: Bean and chili diversity, European Neolithic, Microbiota Vault, Paški sir, Freeze dried potatoes, Rice art, ABS

Collecting beans in the American SW.
Chilis too.
Updated map of Neolithic expansion in Europe.
The Microbiota Vault is a thing.
Wind-flavoured cheese.
But is chuño worth saving, really?
The art of rice diversity.
Using Jerry Maguire to explain the Plant Treaty. It is not well done. But one is surprised to see it done at all.

Greek organic farm resists.
Communities getting into seed banking all over.
Saving zapalote chico.
Would you like chiltepines with that?
No zapalote chico in South Africa, but lots of other maize.
Conserving agricultural biodiversity in China.
Including in Hainan.
At the same time, China restricts foreign access to human genome data.
Sexually plastic Australian wild tomato named at long last.
Breeding flavour crops.
And figuring out how much it will cost.
Interesting project on human-chicken interactions.
Veggie breeder wins World Food Prize.
New coffee table book on cattle in Africa.
Flagship agroforestry database gets new version. Anyone wanna test it for us?
Minor cereals in Europe are anything but minor.
And lots are conserved in Europe’s increasingly scrutinized genebanks.
Meanwhile, a major cereals keeps getting the attention it also needs.
“The candidate markers could be used by any rice genebank to potentially identify varieties with seeds that are particularly short- or long-lived in storage. Viability monitoring intervals could then be customized by variety.” And wheat?

The Coffee Science Foundation is the science foundation we all need.
In search of Bob’s ganja.
Vox vid on saving crop diversity. Pretty good, except for that thorn apple thing.
GIZ support for the CIP genebank.
Ex-CIP breeder works with VIR to bring wild potatoes to Cornell.
Or friend Lex Thomson on why Fiji is a hibiscus hotspot.
Celebrate European cereal diversity.
Dan Barber on freeing the seed. The polarisation continues.
The first British farmers walked there.
CIMMYT rebuttal of a paper saying European wheat varieties are decreasing in their climate resilience.
Celery was once a luxury.

The deep history of inhaling.
CIP genebank scientists honoured.
But do they know about the most expensive potato in the world?
The thinking behind that IPBES 1 million threatened species number.
Seed documentary wins awards.
Tasty blue bananas.
One-woman genebank in India.
Meanwhile, in Rome, negotiations to improve the Plant Treaty continue… Fingers crossed.