Vegetables

Nibbles: CBD COP, Biofortification, Foodie potatoes, Dates date, Reintroductions, Quercus, Nomenclature, Maize, P, Agroforestry, Weeds, VIR, Lactose intolerance, Yersinia

Bioversity DG “jubilant” at Nagoya Protocol.
A video plug for the biofortification conference.
Native potatoes on foodie agenda.
A date palm festival. In the US.
The success of species introductions.
Italian acorn cakes deconstructed. I’m told the people able to recognize these sweet acorns are few and old.
Calling times on biological names. Whoa!
Saving heirloom mielies.
What the heck is happening with phosphorus anyway?
Panamanian farmers don’t like to grow (some) native trees on their farms because of slow growth rates.
Eating medieval weeds.
Latest from Pavlovsk. I have no idea what’s going on anymore.
Lactase persistence due to cold.
Genetics says plague came from China.

African data centre planned.
“…genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity of plant anti-herbivore defences allow plant populations to rapidly respond to changing environmental conditions.” In a crop wild relative, no less.
The genetics of chicken domestication. I’d like to see the results of those crosses.
Do you have these heirloom tomatoes?
Getting increased heat tolerance from a wild relative into wheat.

Apple diversity on display at Terra Madre.
A drought-resistant sorghum for Karamoja. Read the script of a radio programme.
CIAT advises Ugandan farmers: produce what you can sell, don’t sell what you can produce. Hmmmn.
Local cow breeds and Protected Designation of Origin cheeses. There’s a conclusion here struggling to emerge, but I can’t recognize it. Help me.
CABI pushes for crop diversification. Get in line!
Where giant pumpkins come from.
Nutritionists should get to grips with human diversity.
2nd State of the World’s PGRFA launched by FAO to much fanfare. And usual incorrect figures on genetic erosion. Oh I give up.

Crop wild relatives from genebank in use shock.
Landraces from same genebank in use shock. Hopefully a full blog post is coming soon from the author himself.
Would you eat this cucumber?
Dog evolution, again.
New wild cassava species found.
Thank goodness for our name-based bioinformatics infrastructure, eh?
The history of benefit sharing deconstructed. Nothing on ITPGRFA?
Mexican chili farmers maintain rather than direct with their seed selection.
My genebank is bigger than your genebank!