Threats

Nibbles: Lost apple, Ducks, Chilli breeding, Heritage breeds, Population and Quantitative Genetics, Madeira

Finding the Colorado Orange apple.
British duck breed goes wild in Thailand.
Might consumers care about genetics?
Well they do, right? At least if they’re into heirloom varieties and heritage breeds.
If they do care, they should read this book.
Is madeira your desert island wine?

Prof. Gayle J. Fritz gets 2020 Mary W. Klinger Book Award for “Feeding Cahokia.” Beyond maize and priests.
The ups and downs of grape varieties. Airén relinquishes the top spot! So much data: who will calculate diversity stats?
Nice, long podcast on the beginning of farming in the Fertile Crescent. More coming up.
“Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table” is the sort of cookbook we all need.
What is it about floating gardens? Quite a lot, really. But they are not easily transplanted, as it were.

Boffins clone Przewalski’s horse.
Boffins start fish genebank. Cloning next?
Boffins deconstruct the breeders’ equation. Apply to fish next?
Boffin (and Jeremy) discusses how the chilli pepper got to China. Goes well with fish. The pepper, not the podcast.

3000 peas go to Svalbard.
Bananas 101, courtesy of Prof. Pat Heslop-Harrison.
Video goodness on Neolithic Greece from the aptly named Flint Dibble.
Plants to dye for. With. Sorry. Dye with.
Brands climb awkwardly on the biodiversity bandwagon. Genebanks look on, enviously.

Remembering Robin Graham, prophet of biofortification.
Honouring plant breeder supreme Fred Blisss.
Need to produce seed of all those new varieties that breeders come up with.
And save the stuff they will replace: The Economist does the potatoes of Chiloé.
Hey, it’s not just about the crops: conserving goats on farm in India.
The experimental archaeology of bread thrives under corona. And if you were intrigued by the potato detoxification reference, find the details on Bill Schindler’s website. And not only bread and potatoes, also beer…
Like Mozart’s oat beer? Which was apparently killed off by lager back in Austria but is now available in Denver.
Food shouldn’t be cheap, it should be affordable, and not only for those who consume it. Ancient Egyptian bread will be exempted.
No way Kenyan coffee can be described as cheap. h/t Jeremy’s newsletter: have you subscribed yet?
I don’t know how cheap mungbean is in Myanmar, but it seems to be very valuable.
The PNG singing dog is not extinct in the wild after all? Priceless.
Combination of key and photo guide to the identification of European fungi. Worth its weight in truffles. Source.