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Category: Vegetables

Posted on May 29, 2020June 8, 2020

Nibbles: Lettuce breeding, SPC genebank, European genebanks, Messaging, New sorghum, Ancient DNA, Pastoralism review

  • A million bucks to save lettuce.
  • Genebank provides seeds shock.
  • The genebank of the future will provide data.
  • How to talk about genebanks (among other things).
  • A sorghum variety to keep an eye on.
  • The past, present and future of Cinchona.
  • Ancient genomics of people and dogs: compare and contrast.
  • Looking (up) to pastoralists for answers.
Posted on May 22, 2020

Nibbles: Fusarium, Lactobacillus, Lycopersicon, Digitaria, Morus

  • The latest on TR4 resistant banana varieties in Australia.
  • Lactobacillus is in fact 25 genera.
  • Greenhouse tomatoes pretty diverse after all?
  • Digitaria: from weed to forage.
  • London’s mulberries.
Posted on May 7, 2020

Nibbles: Alert edition

  • Book alert: Biodiversity, Food and Nutrition — A New Agenda for Sustainable Food Systems.
  • Thread alert: Monumental analysis of crop yield trends in the USA.
  • Woke alert: WorldVeg ticks a lot of boxes with its work on a peppers core collection.
  • Policy alert: Why haven’t farmers’ varieties found a place in national and global seed markets?
Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

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.
Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Nibbles: Olives, Figs, Columbian Exchange, Flour, landraces Newsletter, DOIs

  • Is there any doubt that olives are important?
  • Or figs, for that matter.
  • Spanish botanical garden exhibit on Latin American plants that changed the European diet. Stunning.
  • Old mills making a comeback.
  • Latest issue of the Landraces newsletter from Farmer’s Pride. See also here for previous issues.
  • Huge PDF on DOIs in genebanks.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. FAO explains why crop diversity matters.
    2. Well, for one thing, there’s food prices, that’s why.
    3. Ah, yes, crop diversity: “You gotta have it. You gotta use it. You gotta talk about it.”
    4. Odisha mainstreams landrace diversity in its seed system.
    5. Meanwhile, the Farmers Union of Cyprus is stashing seeds away in Community Bank of Cypriot Traditional Seeds.
    6. Looks a bit like the Groupements de Production Artisanale de Semences in Haiti. If you squint.
    7. If only there were some guidelines for managing such community seed banks.
    8. Iraqi Kurdistan gets in on the genebank act.
    9. Iraq used to have a genebank, but what happened to it has just happened in Sudan.
    10. Ah, to have a Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index so that such things could be predicted and steps taken.
    11. And a monitoring system and some targets would be good too.

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