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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.