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Nibbles: ICRISAT genebank, Rubus, Microbial collections, AnGR, Xylella podcast, Andean ag, Chefs galore, Zizania, Peas, Inflatable beans, NUS, Potato Day, TR4, CC impacts, Cereals

Wanna work in a genebank in Niamey?
More on that proposed livestock genebank in Uganda.
Microbes have collections too.
On his holiday, Jeremy mainly looked at dead olive trees. Freak.
The Potato King looks like a cool movie. Chef Ramsey’s latest? Maybe not so much.
Oh crap, we missed National Potato Day. Not in Peru, settle down.
More chefs, this time fiddling with rice in Tanzania, of all places.
Will they do wild rice next?
Peas getting a chance. But are they going to get inflatables like these bean varieties?
But does it qualify as underutilized still, I wonder?
Get to grips with brambles. The whole series is worth following.
TR4 reaches South America’s bananas. Be afraid.
Climate change will affects the region’s rainfed maize too.
You’ll want sustainably sourced breakfast cereals to put those non-existent bananas on. Hey, companies, what about conserving genetic diversity along with that soil?

Nice vintage map of global crop distribution, starring wheat.
CIMMYT DG on the glories of plant breeding, starring wheat (p. 6).
Australia supports Pacific genebank. No wheat in sight.
Saving coconut. No, not in the Pacific.
The history of chocolate and vanilla. The crops, not the ice cream.
Speaking of ice cream: maybe someone should try making some out of these tasty endangered fruits before it’s too late.
Speaking of tasty: basmati.
Speaking of rice: this guy has 1420 varieties.
Hey, it’s not about the taste: it’s the ethics too, stupid. But, being wine, it’s also about the taste.
Speaking of ethics: what good is forest conservation if it stops people accessing wild foods.
At least one senator gets it.
You’ve got a few weeks to register for a potato breeding course. Using CWR, no less.
Amazing pics of Chinese aquaculture.
Chinese efforts to save ancient trees. No connection with above at all. And no pics.
Google will identify your plants. Of course it will.
Speaking at Google: a linguist (Dan Jurafsky) on menus.
Next generation shepherding in South Africa. No sign of Google, though. For now.
Interactive atlas of US forests. There goes the afternoon. Imagine if if ever got mashed up with the global fire atlas.
Automated Red List assessments. Wow.
The MERL has an exhibition on the history of farming. One of my favourite museums, one of my favourite topics. My cup runneth over.
Gin made from peas. Sometimes I hate farming.

Collecting beans in the American SW.
Chilis too.
Updated map of Neolithic expansion in Europe.
The Microbiota Vault is a thing.
Wind-flavoured cheese.
But is chuño worth saving, really?
The art of rice diversity.
Using Jerry Maguire to explain the Plant Treaty. It is not well done. But one is surprised to see it done at all.

The Coffee Science Foundation is the science foundation we all need.
In search of Bob’s ganja.
Vox vid on saving crop diversity. Pretty good, except for that thorn apple thing.
GIZ support for the CIP genebank.
Ex-CIP breeder works with VIR to bring wild potatoes to Cornell.
Or friend Lex Thomson on why Fiji is a hibiscus hotspot.
Celebrate European cereal diversity.
Dan Barber on freeing the seed. The polarisation continues.
The first British farmers walked there.
CIMMYT rebuttal of a paper saying European wheat varieties are decreasing in their climate resilience.
Celery was once a luxury.

The deep history of inhaling.
CIP genebank scientists honoured.
But do they know about the most expensive potato in the world?
The thinking behind that IPBES 1 million threatened species number.
Seed documentary wins awards.
Tasty blue bananas.
One-woman genebank in India.
Meanwhile, in Rome, negotiations to improve the Plant Treaty continue… Fingers crossed.