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Nibbles: Robin Graham RIP, Fred Bliss award, Seed production, Chile spuds, Indian goats, Ancient bread, Horner Bier, Cheap food, Vigna, Singing dog, Fungal diversity

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.

Important job opening at USDA running the Ames Plant Introduction Station. 50,000 accessions, people.
Online database on the effectiveness of protected areas.
100-year seed experiment kicks off.
Towards more sustainable sugarcane in India. Spoiler alert: juice, not molasses.
The Neolithic temples of Malta were used to worship food.
The “fish pepper” of Black Chesapeake homegardens lost, and found..
News clip on the USDA central genebank at Ft Collins.
Invest 50 mins in learning about eucalypts.

The Xylella butcher’s bill mounts up.
Webinar on the Plant Treaty.
The history of the humble: potato, sweetpotato, guinea pig.
Agroforestry in the forest.
Unilever does C labelling. Biodiversity next?
Hacking apomixis in sorghum and cowpea so farmers can save seeds of hybrids.
Temperature range and plant host range of fungus and oomycete pathogens change rapidly and are not correlated.
In from the cold: Rudolph’s genome.
Rethinking public gardens in a series of 5-minute presentations.

Australia delves into black rice, thanks to IRRI genebank.
Romans had mandarins after all.
Switzerland protects walnut oil.
Hanging gardens, lagoon farms and traditional bamboo agroforestry are exactly what I need at the moment.
The IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group has a new website.

The future of Australian wine in maps.
A Svalbard for the human microbiome?
Plant breeders on the edge of the mainstream.
From FAO, a bibliography on seed systems and seed relief.
Book review: The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past.
Training seed producer groups can help their non-member neighbours too.
There will be marmalade for tea. But, spoiler alert, it might not be what you think.