- Against the grain? A historical institutional analysis of access governance of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Ethiopia. Culture, economics and politics.
- Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia. Everything changed around 1200 BC. Starting in Mongolia.
- Genetic diversity within and between British and Irish breeds: The maternal and paternal history of native ponies. Diversity within breeds being maintained, global haplotypes well represented, but a couple of breeds pretty unique. Long way from Mongolia.
- Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses. Gotta change your cultivars.
- Contribution de la biodiversité à l’éco-oenotourisme des vignobles héroïques: atouts et perspectives. You can’t change your cultivars.
- Marker-assisted selection in a global barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare) collection revealed a unique genetic determinant of the naked barley controlled by the nud locus. One genetic variant, from East Asia, makes barley naked.
- Morphological diversity within a core collection of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.): Lessons in pasture adaptation from the wild. The Australian cultivars have similar morphological diversity to the core collection, and several morphological characters are probably adaptive.
- Genome-wide genetic diversity is maintained through decades of soybean breeding in Canada. After an initial decline, though, and there’s more out there.
- Evaluation of genetic diversity, agronomic traits, and anthracnose resistance in the NPGS Sudan Sorghum Core collection. 10% country subset of a 10% core subset of >40,000 accessions contains multiple anthracnose resistance sources, and lots of other diversity.
- Phylogeny and conservation priority assessment of Asian domestic chicken genetic resources. 7 clades, 3 centres of origin, northern Yunnan the highest priority for conservation.
- European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens. Alas, no evidence of a pre-Columbian Polynesian contribution. Yunnan, that’s another story.
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect the concentration and distribution of nutrients in the grain differently in barley compared with wheat. Differently as in opposite directions.
- Molecular and Morphological Divergence of Australian Wild Rice. Including a putative new taxon.
Nibbles: Costs edition
- What should food cost? Enough to support genebanks and breeding, natch.
- What would sustainable coffee cost? Including genebanks and breeding, I hope.
- And sustainable bananas? Including genebanks and breeding, of course.
Nibbles: CWR book, Seed pix, Distilling, Sorghum, Posters, Self-sufficiency
- E-book on using crop wild relatives in breeding.
- The aesthetics of conserving seeds.
- The best corn for whiskey.
- Going back to sorghum in Kenya.
- Another take on how to make a cool scientific poster.
- One way to crunch the numbers on eating local.
Brainfood: Agrobiodiversity Index, Breeding strategy, Soybean breeding, Red Listing, Stunting, Planetary boundaries, ITPGRFA, Wheat domestication, Anthropogenic fire double, Japonica diversity, Rice landraces, Tepary breeding, Lupin genome, Hazelnut diversity, Lapita food
- Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use. Fancy maths cannot find evidence of country commitment to seed diversity.
- Optimized breeding strategies to harness Genetic Resources with different performance levels. How a public breeding programme can help out private breeding programme.
- Introgression of novel genetic diversity to improve soybean yield. Public breeding programme helps out private breeding programme. I suppose both got something out of it.
- Rapid Least Concern: towards automating Red List assessments. Nifty web application takes all the fun out of red listing. We talked about this, people.
- Mapping child growth failure across low- and middle-income countries. Even countries and regions that are generally doing well have stubborn hotspots.
- Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries. Feeding, but not necessarily nourishing.
- Genebank Operation in the Arena of Access and Benefit-Sharing Policies. Use the SMTA for everything.
- Multiregional origins of the domesticated tetraploid wheats. Semi-domesticated in the southern Levant, then moved to the northern Fertile Crescent to be finished off. Compare and contrast with barley.
- Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England. Native Americans didn’t manage woodland by controlled burning after all…
- Global change impacts on forest and fire dynamics using paleoecology and tree census data for eastern North America. …Sure they did. Interesting discussion on this on Twitter.
- Multiple streams of genetic diversity in Japonica rice. It’s basically a pan-genome.
- Genomic analyses reveal selection footprints in rice landraces grown under on‐farm conservation conditions during a short‐term period of domestication. Some interesting genetic changes after 27 years of on-farm management, but no erosion.
- Breeding tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) for drought adaptation: A review. You need other species.
- High-quality genome sequence of white lupin provides insight into soil exploration and seed quality. Winter and spring varieties are genetically distinct from each other, and from landraces.
- Genetic diversity and domestication of hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) in Turkey. Hardly domesticated at all.
- Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists. Including bananas.
- Benchmarking genetic diversity in a third-generation breeding population of Melaleuca alternifolia. There’s still quite a bit of diversity around.
Nibbles: Greek breads, Community seed saving double, Seed diversity, Domestication lecture, Food System Dashboard
- How many different kinds of bread do you think there are ancient Greek words for?
- “As phenomenally important as the USDA [seed banks] and the Svalbard [Global Seed Vault] are, they are repositories for biodiversity, not places we can call up to get seeds to plant five acres of corn.”
- As above, but in India.
- As above, but from a seed company.
- Barbara Schaal on domestication. With video goodness.
- A Food System Dashboard to rule them all: describe, diagnose, decide. Not there yet, but almost. It says here.