- 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.
Nibbles: Black rice, Citrus pollen, Swiss nuts, GIAHS, Seedy IUCN
- 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.
Nibbles: Oz wine atlas, Microbiome vault, Guerrilla breeding, Seed relief bibliography, Food archaeology, Seed producers, Marmalade
- 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.
Nibbles: Kenya forests, Australian grasses, Jackfruit processing, Turin fruit museum
- Safeguarding Kenya’s forests the local way.
- The latest from the Dark Emu guy. Is this how Australian Aborigines farmed?
- Adding value to jackfruit in India.
- No jackfruit in this astonishing collection of fruit diversity in wax, alas.
Nibbles: Online courses, Colombian seeds, California grapes, Living lockdown
- Online courses on plant-related stuff.
- Beautiful catalog of Colombian heritage seeds.
- California mission grapes came from Peru, not Mexico.
- Taking care of living collections under coronavirus lockdown.