- Breeding maize for high yields limits its plasticity.
- “The rich ate fine, floured wheat bread. But if you were poor you cut your teeth on rye and black bread.”
- USA, MLS and ITPGRFA.
- Rethinking conservation. Again.
- Content-free article on growing rice in slightly salty water.
- BBC catches up with coffee rust.
- Making animal feed sustainable. Easier said than done.
Nibbles: Banana, Chocolate, Agricultural biodiversity, Conservation
- A new-to-science sweet-and-sour banana. The crop wild relative wallahs better get on it.
- Tasty report on chocolate diversity.
- It says here that “Agricultural diversity the key to food security”. Why weren’t we told before?
- Big push for “radical new thinking on biodiversity conservation”. No sign of agriculture.
Nibbles: Halloween roots, Fred’s great potatoes, Ellis on TV, CIP genebank online, Weird potato, Weird watermelon, Paul Gepts, Caucasian sheep, Livestock hybrids, COP23
- Halloween is an agricultural thing. Basically.
- Frederick the Great had a thing for potatoes. Among other things.
- CIP genebank manager on TV. He has a thing for potatoes too. As you can tell from his new website.
- Pop quiz: Can you find this N American potato in the CIP genebank?
- The extraordinary story of the ancient Native American crookneck watermelon. Bet it goes well with S. jamesii.
- Paul Gepts gets award. No word on his thoughts on potatoes, but he does like beans.
- Transhumance lives in the Caucasus.
- What in tarnation is a zubron?
- Making the case for climate action on agriculture at COP23. And vice versa.
Nibbles: Super-fruit, Wheat, CWR toolkit
- I’ve got your next five superfoods right here.
- Weakened wheats make grain go further.
- Everybody needs an interactive toolkit for crop wild relative conservation.
Nibbles: Pumpkin genomes, Crop movements, Cocoa winners
- Must be that time of year. We have pumpkin genomes
- A report from The Great Pumpkin Project, on cassava in Vietnamese rice paddies, and
- The obligatory treat: The 2017 International Cocoa Award Winners