Vegetables

Nibbles: Horticulture, Phylogeny, Wheat stripe, Chaffey, Shrubs, AnGR, Spirulina, Capparis, Cricetus, Biofortification

Online map of horticultural projects. Mash it up with the CGIAR map, anyone?
Evolution and taxonomy of crop groups: Annonaceae and Allium.
Dealing with wheat stripe in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Some good news there.
Nigel Chaffey does his usual thing. Inimitable.
Today’s thing on what Africa needs for this Greener or Double Green or whatever Revolution everyone wants it to have.
Latest from FAO on what’s happening in livestock genetic resources conservation around the world.
And the latest wonder food. I’ll pass, thanks.
Improving capers through radiation. One of those things where you have to wonder whether it’s really all worth it.
The genetic diversity of the Polish common hamster. Wait, what?
Biofortified crops to the rescue. Again. Gotta wonder about overexposure. The backlash, when it inevitably comes, is going to be a doozy.

Combining traditional and scientific knowledge on an invasive species to manage forests.
Variation in dryland trees: Balanites and Adansonia.
Roundup of biofortification bloggers.

Americans advised to eat diversity, by USDA and others. Wot, no fortified staples?
Webcast on Food Systems and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. h/t The Agrobiodiversity Grapevine.
French vegetables disappearing? Je ne le crois pas.
The Scientist Gardener tackles declining yields of miracle rice, but what has he done to his colour scheme?

The UK’s take on Nagoya? “In the end it was a great success.” Really, it was.
ILRI outlines project to protect local livestock breeds in Viet Nam.
Another day, another genebank (in another language).
Haiti told to get growing. “I’ve worked in some severely affected countries, including Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Mali, but I have never seen such a suppressed agricultural system as we saw in Haiti.” Louise Sperling speaks truth to power.